the way to tell if the unemployment rate is very low is you will notice restaurant opening, and restaurants being busy with lots of customers. same with bars. It is a consequence of positive economic environment and people with disposable income.
Other good indicator will be virtually everyone you know who wants a job will have a job, and getting raises and moving to better paid work will be commonly experienced.
Government stats are hard to rely on at the best of times.
It's fucking nothing. I'm more interested in the labor force participation rate, as is anyone who actually gives a shit and has a non shit skin brain.
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Promising in the full time market. Let's look at part time.
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This gives us a net 1.8m jobs added in that time, with a bias favoring full time employment. The total number of jobs in the us is 153m. Divided by 325m is about enough for every household to have at least one job.
It's off to a good start but don't get too excited. We aren't out of this hole yet and we have a lot to do.
100% true. There's lots of new nurses, insurance agents, and frackers in my community, and they're drinking BEER
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So the stats, which we've been saying for years are defined into meaninglessness to cover how bad things are, are now true?
shit's dead out here
nothing but gov jobs to keep the wimmin employed and part-time mcjobs that not even kids are taking because the hours are too low and scattered to make it worthwhile