Wishful Thinking? AP Headline Overstates Feb. Job Adds by 50,000
Gosh, how did that happen?
At the Associated Press as of 7:30 p.m., its Top Business stories (saved here for future reference) top headline read: "Strong 3 months of hiring as US adds 277,000 jobs." The headline at the underlying article (saved here) reads the same. Related pics are after the jump.
Here they are:
One has to wonder if the Administration's Press is going to get a call or email from the White House wondering why the wire service used a marquee advertising what are typically part-time jobs at a drive-in theatre as its picture glorifying today's news. (It's actually inadvertently appropriate, given the virtually unreported trend during the past two years, which has only recently begun to reverse, of hiring of part-timers vs. full-timers.)
There's really no wriggling out of this one for the AP's headline writers.
Upward revisions to seasonally adjusted figures for December and January added 61,000 to the number of Americans reported as having jobs per the Establishment Survey. Combined with February's additions of 227,000 reported today, that leads to a total of 288,000, not 277,000. Typo?
Perhaps AP was trying to tell us something about the average number of jobs added during the past three months. If so, that doesn't work either. The past three months' additions have totaled 734,000, or an average of 245,000.
The number "277,000" does not appear anywhere in Christopher Rugaber's report. What an "odd" coincidence that the number just so happens to be 50,000 too high.
This is just AP: Absolutely Pathetic.
Cross-posted at BizzyBlog.com.
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I just read that Boy BlahBlah
Submitted by killa37 on Fri, 03/09/2012 - 11:46pm.
I just read that Boy BlahBlah said that 'America is coming back'!!!!! And, in the same paragraph, he also blamed the Republicans for getting in the way of his message, and forgetting about all the problems that they caused to get us into this big mess that we are 'coming back' from.
Well, that does it for me!! End of story!! I'm feeling more optimistic allready, just to hear Boy WON say such a thing!! I can't wait until Novemeber to vote for him!!!
Killa
Submitted by Radical1979 on Fri, 03/09/2012 - 11:49pm.
I take it the clouds are parting and the rain has stopped now?
It's so wonderful here my son is still working two part time jobs instead of one full time.
If it gets much better he'll be working one part time job.
Ms. Rad - over here in the
Submitted by killa37 on Sat, 03/10/2012 - 1:08am.
Ms. Rad - over here in the People's Republic of Hawaii - in Asai, a LOT of people work a LOT of part-time jobs, and that is because of the Hawaii Healthcare Law, that mandates anyone working over 20 hours a week MUST be covered by their employers!! This WAS Nurse Ratchett's template for her own healthcare plan.............I remember when she came here, back in the 90's. By the way - doesn't she look absolutely SHOT these days?? Just wonderin'....................do you think that Humus Weinerschnitzel can get aroused when she crawls into bed with that hag??? But I digress.................
On local radio yesterday
Submitted by Tugboat Phil on Sat, 03/10/2012 - 10:38am.
at the top and bottom of every hour we heard about Baraka's visit to a Rolls Royce engine plant in Virginia. They played sound bites of him saying that Americans "make things" and all these engines were "made in the US." It ws him trying to pump up the pro-America crowd, which I refer to as good citizens, but is foreign to most on the left.
Naturally, in hopes that my granddaughter will grow up thinking I'm a trusted, stable voice of reason, I started screaming at the radio, "ROLLS ROYCE IS A BRITISH COMPANY!!" Fer cryin out loud, we make Hondas, Toyotas, BMWs and many other fine autos and other products, but they are the same type of "non-jobs" we heard the left bemoan when they came here under Republican Presidents.
Don't know if it's actually
Submitted by big.league.slider on Sat, 03/10/2012 - 2:50am.
Don't know if it's actually true, but the jobs statistic I saw that really shocked me was the monthly increase in the number of workers having more than one part-time job. The monthly increase was over 200,000 nationally.
If true, this would mean there is not a net decrease in unemployment, but instead a net increase. Fewer good paying jobs, and more low wage jobs in areas like service industries. In other words, the type of jobs where the workers pay no taxes. Apparently, there are lots of people that have run out of unemployment benefits and are now forced to find any work they can.
227K as we know was the
Submitted by billb on Sat, 03/10/2012 - 8:08am.
227K as we know was the number reported. The report also indicated an upward revision for January to 284K. Barring no revision next month, these numbers show a DROP of 57K!
Hopefully we can REVISE the election of 2008.
Lies? No kiddin'?
Submitted by Ruler4You on Sat, 03/10/2012 - 5:52pm.
Look, every month new figures come out. And every week after that "back revised" numbers come out.
And every month we expect better resolution and more accurate "data". The truth "IS" that government KNOWS you only pay attention to the "report" and not the 'revised' numbers. It's organized fraud... by government. Face it, we are being lied to methodically, systematically, endemically. Empirically. Without question, without confrontation, without fail.
Government "IS" manipulating "tax payers." Which "IS" ~50% of Americans earing a wage in this country. So, half of Americans are being discriminated against, methodically. Systemically. Intentionally. With malice. The rest are being provided with the rewards of the productive. While the productive are being maligned.