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New Job Numbers for March Don’t Meet Expectations

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Posted on Apr 6, 2012
bbc.co.uk

This would feel like horse-race politics, employment edition, if only the stakes weren’t so high: The Department of Labor released employment data on Friday for the month of March, and the results didn’t match more optimistic projections for the blustery month.

BBC:

The US economy added 120,000 jobs during March, lower than estimates suggested, while the unemployment rate fell slightly to 8.2%.

Analysts had predicted a fourth straight month with job growth of more than 200,000.

President Barack Obama’s electoral prospects are widely seen as linked to the economy and the jobs market.

Employment has been rising for the past six months, but the jobless rate has been stuck above 8% since early 2009.

The Department of Labor’s data shows the smallest growth in employment since October 2011.

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By Julio, April 26, 2012 at 8:31 pm Link to this comment
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Greg… thought I shulod point out that columnists don’t write their own headlines for their columns - there are headline writers at the paper who do that. The headline is then approved by the editor… could it be that the editor might want to make Goldberg’s column unpalatable before anyone goes to read it?  Nah - that would never happen…  So, I don’t think you can blame Goldberg for that one… now the rest of the column is his - feel free to rail away at it.As for his reply to Ms. Streisand… he’s right on with that.  She thinks “diversity” means a whole bunch of liberal op-ed people.  Not liberal vs conservative op-ed people.  I always find that amusing.

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By stand to reason, April 9, 2012 at 11:10 am Link to this comment
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Just like that balance point of easing out of the current La Nina
climate condition and going into another El Nino Neutral
condition, it is hard to tell what this in reality is, some part of
the insider trading perks the uber-rich get from their personal
stock brokers. Looks as if the low jobs has brought the
ostensible economic stock market indicator down so it will go up
tomorrow which means the uber-rich sold early today and will
buy back at closing time so they and really slam that faux
economic indicator stock market tomorrow by selling off big
again.

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By Samson, April 7, 2012 at 6:59 pm Link to this comment

Those analysts who had such expectations obviously
ain’t out there looking for a job.  If they were in the
real world, they’d have known what to expect.

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By nancy86, April 6, 2012 at 12:25 pm Link to this comment

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Woodfired bread/ pizza oven construction,
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A piece of the (pizza) pie - Roanoke Times,

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