• pageflight@lemmy.world
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      19 days ago

      That lack of breadth was wildly apparent in July: Health care and social assistance, which added 73,300 jobs, accounted for the entirety of the month’s overall gains.

      “There was a three-legged stool holding up the labor market; we had state and local, leisure and hospitality, and health care and social assistance,” Swonk said. “And now we’re down to one.”

      “A one-legged stool is dangerous,” she added

  • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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    19 days ago

    And the person that got these numbers is already fired because how dare she give accurate numbers that are shit?

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    19 days ago

    It’s almost like the revisions render the initial releases completely unreliable. Almost. Yet the market moves as if they mattered.

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    19 days ago

    Not shocked that the previous months were a lie… does that happen often, or ever? They so badly want things to look better than they are and we all know lying is the main tool in faking the appearance.

    • StinkyFingerItchyBum@lemmy.ca
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      Revisions have been frequent and standard practice for a very very long time. It has gotten out of control over the last 20 years or so. Under today’s administration, assume everything is a political fabrication like China and Russia.

      Information isn’t meant to inform opinion. It’s meant to form opinion.

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      19 days ago

      Statistics from the US Government under Trump should be taken with the same pinch of salt as statistics from China, Russia or North Korea.