Underemployment, a measure that combines the percentage of workers who are unemployed with the percentage working part time but wanting full-time work, surged to 18.7% in January. This is a worsening from the 18.3% of December......U.S. unemployment, as measured by Gallup without seasonal adjustment, increased slightly to 8.6% in January from 8.5% in December...
...Regardless of what the government reports, Gallup's unemployment and underemployment measures show deterioration since mid-January. While the unemployment rate of 8.6% for January is up only modestly from December, this overall increase subsumes the more negative trend of the most recent weeks. In turn, this also seems consistent with Wednesday's ADP report showing less job growth in January than in the prior month.
In fact, the only group showing the employment situation improving in January was the BLS. And it had to remove 1.2 million Americans from the labor force to do so.
Here's a helpful hint for the CFO of Gallup: I predict a major audit by the IRS is in your future.
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Bureau of Labor Statistics?? You mean the Ministry of Truth don't you.
ReplyDeleteLet's see, they don't count people who are unemployed but who have just said to hell with it.
And the bunch over at the Consumer Price Index don't count energy or food costs when they calculate inflation. Hey, I don't know about you, but I like sitting in a cold dark room, hungry.
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