Help Please! Need DOL / Gov link with total job loss numbers under Bush*!

Thanks!

At Recovery's Dawn
Behind the Numbers and the Euphemisms Lie Some Messy Realities
By David Finkel
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, December 14, 2003; Page A01

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A62464-2003Dec13?language=printer

will you please post if you do find those exact numbers?

keep on!

peace

*edit to add article title

In general you must go to www.bls.gov, but they have really changed the presentation when it was easy to find the real data because the real data was good.

In our new world where peace and prosperity is replaced by "not as bad as last year" - and sold by the media as peace and prosperity, the Bush folks have been busy revising the past and coming up with new seasonal numbers.

Below is the true unemployment number (called U-6 and includes discouraged workers) of 9.7% versus Nov 2000's 6.7%, and the seasonally adjusted number employed of 130174 (pre-lim est) for Nov 2003 versus the Nov 2000 number of 132345, or a decrease of 2,471,000 jobs over the last 3 years.

http://data.bls.gov/servlet/SurveyOutputServlet


Series Id: LNU03327709Not Seasonally AdjustedSeries title: (Unadj) Special Unemployment Rate U-6Labor force status: Aggregated totals unemployedType of data: PercentAge: 16 years and overPercent/rates: Unemployed and mrg attached and pt for econ reas as percent of labor force plus marg attached

Year Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Annual
1994 12.8 12.2 11.9 10.9 10.6 11.3 11.1 10.4 10.0 9.7 9.7 9.7 10.9
1995 11.1 10.5 10.3 9.8 9.8 10.4 10.4 10.0 9.7 9.3 9.6 9.7 10.1
1996 10.8 10.7 10.3 9.7 9.5 10.0 10.0 9.3 9.0 8.8 8.9 9.2 9.7
1997 10.4 10.0 9.6 9.0 8.5 9.2 9.0 8.6 8.3 7.9 8.0 8.2 8.9
1998 9.3 8.9 8.9 7.7 7.6 8.4 8.5 7.8 7.6 7.3 7.2 7.3 8.0
1999 8.5 8.2 7.9 7.4 7.1 7.9 7.7 7.2 7.0 6.7 6.8 6.9 7.4
2000 7.8 7.6 7.4 6.6 6.8 7.2 7.2 7.0 6.6 6.3 6.8 6.7 7.0
2001 8.1 7.9 7.6 7.1 7.2 8.2 8.1 8.1 8.2 8.7 9.0 9.3 8.1
2002 10.5 10.1 9.9 9.4 9.2 9.8 9.9 9.5 9.0 9.0 9.4 9.6 9.6
2003 11.0 10.8 10.4 9.8 9.7 10.6 10.5 10.0 9.8 9.5 9.7

Series Id: CES0000000001Seasonally AdjustedSuper Sector: Total nonfarmIndustry: Total nonfarmData Type: ALL EMPLOYEES, THOUSANDS

Year Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Annual
1993 109725 109962 109916 110223 110496 110660 110960 111119 111359 111638 111901 112203
1994 112473 112665 113133 113490 113829 114139 114498 114801 115155 115361 115786 116056
1995 116377 116588 116808 116971 116962 117189 117260 117538 117777 117926 118070 118210
1996 118192 118627 118882 119047 119376 119647 119875 120078 120296 120534 120826 121003
1997 121232 121526 121843 122134 122396 122642 122918 122911 123417 123756 124063 124361
1998 124629 124814 124962 125240 125641 125846 125967 126322 126543 126735 127020 127364
1999 127471 127872 128004 128381 128593 128845 129166 129336 129548 129952 130251 130509
2000 130760 130885 131380 131674 131905 131871 131953 132001 132129 132137 132345 132445
2001 132436 132560 132527 132247 132230 132064 131867 131719 131550 131198 130900 130661
2002 130578 130510 130481 130415 130411 130383 130204 130224 130289 130408 130409 130198
2003 130356 130235 130084 130062 129986 129903 129846 129881 129980 130117(p) 130174(p)
p : preliminary

puzzling. this is what i got there:

"Tuesday, December 16, 2003 1:48 PM

Sorry, survey does not exist. Please contact the data specialist listed below if you have any questions."


maybe good you got them now!
:)


peace