More economic good news......unemployment rate drops to 4.9%

[eddiew]

Give it up, nobody is enthused with a 151K job gain, it's anemic

What's the average job gain ??? or are you too cowardly to mention that?

Under Obungles....anemic. Eddie get past I'm taking you serious, at first it was fun smacking you around but now even that is boring. Go outside and play

Obama has added over 9 million jobs, Both Bush's combined for 4 million

Who was anemic?

The republicans here just are dim bulbs ,,,,,facts are not their friends

and you're a typical nasty leftie. typical of the people who follows their Masters of the Democrat party.

and you kiss the butts of the pubs don't throw stones when you live in a glass house

 

[Faun]

Give it up, nobody is enthused with a 151K job gain, it's anemic

What's the average job gain ??? or are you too cowardly to mention that?

Under Obungles....anemic. Eddie get past I'm taking you serious, at first it was fun smacking you around but now even that is boring. Go outside and play

Obama has added over 9 million jobs, Both Bush's combined for 4 million

Who was anemic?

The republicans here just are dim bulbs ,,,,,facts are not their friends

and you're a typical nasty leftie. typical of the people who follows their Masters of the Democrat party.

Squeals a two-time Bush voter.

 

[Uncensored2008]

It tells me you are a LIAR!

There are more people working Full Time now than ever in the history of this great country.

Bullshit.

United States Labor Force Participation Rate | 1950-2016 | Data | Chart

That you have to openly lie for your little tin god should tell you something.

 

[Uncensored2008]

Squeals a two-time Bush voter.

Vomits the 6 time Obama voter.

 

[pinqy]

It tells me you are a LIAR!

There are more people working Full Time now than ever in the history of this great country.

Bullshit.

United States Labor Force Participation Rate | 1950-2016 | Data | Chart

That you have to openly lie for your little tin god should tell you something.

Do you not understande what a rate is? There are more people working now than ever before.
As a PERCENT of the noninstitutional population, it is not the highest, but even that's not what you're showing. You're linking to Labor Force Participation Rate...which is Employed PLUS UNEEMPLOYED as a percent of the noninstitutional population.

In the following graph, Employment LEVEL is the green line and has the Y-axis on the right. Highest level ever.
The red line is Employment-Population Ratio, Y-axis on Left. Currently trending up.
The blue line is the Labor Force Participation Rate with Y-axis on left. It includes unemployed, and has been dropping since 2000.

 

[Stephanie]

What's the average job gain ??? or are you too cowardly to mention that?

Under Obungles....anemic. Eddie get past I'm taking you serious, at first it was fun smacking you around but now even that is boring. Go outside and play

Obama has added over 9 million jobs, Both Bush's combined for 4 million

Who was anemic?

The republicans here just are dim bulbs ,,,,,facts are not their friends

and you're a typical nasty leftie. typical of the people who follows their Masters of the Democrat party.

and you kiss the butts of the pubs don't throw stones when you live in a glass house

you're such a good little slave/tool

 

[Hutch Starskey]

And that has nothing to do with current employment trends

Just more conservative scapegoating

It has every thing to do with current trends you imbecile

That scenario is just bullshit made up by conservatives
If you think I am wrong, show the stats to prove it

What do you consider food services, retail, hospitality,tourism?

You made the claim.....Show me the numbers supporting people are leaving one job and taking three temporary jobs to replace it and that it counts as three jobs

That is total bullshit and you know it

So when you have one the biggest job gains and layoffs in a year being retail. What do you think that means?

I think it means that American business as a whole need to be better citizens and invest in American workers rather than just gains for their shareholders.

 

[Hutch Starskey]

Payroll employment rises by 151,000 in January; unemployment rate changes little (4.9%)

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

Economic News Release


THE EMPLOYMENT SITUATION -- JANUARY 2016

Total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 151,000 in January, and the unemployment rate was little changed at 4.9 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Job gains occurred in several industries, led by retail trade, food services and drinking places, health care, and manufacturing. Employment declined in private educational services, transportation and warehousing, and mining.

__________________________________________________________________

Changes to The Employment Situation Data

Establishment survey data have been revised as a result of the
annual benchmarking process and the updating of seasonal
adjustment factors. Also, household survey data for January 2016
reflect updated population estimates. See the notes at the end
of this news release for more information about these changes.
__________________________________________________________________


Household Survey Data

Both the number of unemployed persons, at 7.8 million, and the unemployment rate, at 4.9 percent, changed little in January. Over the past 12 months, the number of unemployed persons and the unemployment rate were down by 1.1 million and 0.8 percentage point, respectively. (See table A-1. See the note at the end of this news release and tables B and C for information about annual population adjustments to the household survey estimates.)
....

The number of long-term unemployed (those jobless for 27 weeks or more) was essentially unchanged in January, at 2.1 million, and has shown little movement since June. These individuals accounted for 26.9 percent of the unemployed. (See table A-12.)

After accounting for the annual adjustments to the population controls, the civilian labor force and total employment, as measured by the household survey, were little changed in January. The labor force participation rate, at 62.7 percent, was little changed. The employment-population ratio (59.6 percent) changed little over the month but was up by 0.3 percentage point since October. (See table A-1. For additional information about the effects of the population adjustments, see table C.)
....

In January, 2.1 million persons were marginally attached to the labor force, little different from a year earlier. (The data are not seasonally adjusted.) These individuals were not in the labor force, wanted and were available for work, and had looked for a job sometime in the prior 12 months. They were not counted as unemployed because they had not searched for work in the 4 weeks preceding the survey. (See table A-16.)

Among the marginally attached, there were 623,000 discouraged workers in January, essentially unchanged from a year earlier. (The data are not seasonally adjusted.) Discouraged workers are persons not currently looking for work because they believe no jobs are available for them. The remaining 1.5 million persons marginally attached to the labor force in January had not searched for work for reasons such as school attendance or family responsibilities. (See table A-16.)

Establishment Survey Data

....
In January, average hourly earnings for all employees on private nonfarm payrolls increased by 12 cents to $25.39. Over the year, average hourly earnings have risen by 2.5 percent. In January, average hourly earnings of private-sector production and nonsupervisory employees rose by 6 cents to $21.33. (See tables B-3 and B-8.)

The change in total nonfarm payroll employment for November was revised from +252,000 to +280,000, and the change for December was revised from +292,000 to +262,000. With these revisions, employment gains in November and December combined were 2,000 lower than previously reported. Over the past 3 months, job gains have averaged 231,000 per month. Monthly revisions result from additional reports received from businesses since the last published estimates and the recalculation of seasonal factors. The annual benchmark process also contributed to these revisions.

_____________
The Employment Situation for February is scheduled to be released on Friday, March 4, 2016, at 8:30 a.m. (EST).

Read more: Employment Situation Summary

Good Job Obama!!!! You turned it all around.

Way to go Obimbo! Maybe you can fix the roads and infrastructure and make a moon shot.

Hoss,

You're a 2 Time Scrub Voter, right?

How were things looking coming into the last year of that mongolian cluster hump?

I was getting pay raises and COLA then. Since Jesus,Jr. got into office he comes up with tricks to stop that. Like lowering gas prices then telling the world, "There, you won't get COLA but I lowered gas prices." How in hell does it help millions of people who don't own a car? Fares for public transportation goes up too.

How does any president prevent any employer from offering pay raises or colas?

 

[edthecynic]

It tells me you are a LIAR!

There are more people working Full Time now than ever in the history of this great country.

Bullshit.

United States Labor Force Participation Rate | 1950-2016 | Data | Chart

That you have to openly lie for your little tin god should tell you something.

Another idiot who has no idea what they are talking about.
This is the correct data and chart!!!

Bureau of Labor Statistics Data

 

[Hutch Starskey]

we need to add somewhere in the range of 180,000 just to keep up with population growth, retirements etc., so 150,000 is nothing to be happy about.

The libs need a labor economics class. Badly.

Cons need to know when they have been fed a bunch of lies. Badly.

All it takes is 114,740 jobs per month to keep up with population growth at a 4.9% UE rate

Jobs Calculator

your calculator assumes we continue with the same labor force participation rate of ~63%.

in other words it tosses ~37% of the eligible labor force over the side to come up with this number.

Wanna guess what we end up with when we take that 114,740 and divide by .63, which actually accounts for all of the people?

I'll save you the trouble- 182,126

How many of those people actually need or want a job? Your accounting in no way reflects those who have retired or otherwise don't need to work.

 

[JakeStarkey]

Those who tout 95 million who are not working without accounting for "why" for all of them are evil and partisan assholes, pure and simple, who do not care about truth and the welfare of country.

They purposely try to deceive and want to condemn without giving all the information.

 

[Hutch Starskey]

Cue republican outrage over labor participation rate and U6

Unemployment falls to 4.9%, lowest in 8 years

When they do a true count and report the true numbers I will care.

Do you honestly believe that the carreer gov't workers at the BLS or any agency for that matter, actually change how they do their jobs based on the politics of the current president?

 

[Uncensored2008]

Do you honestly believe that the carreer gov't workers at the BLS or any agency for that matter, actually change how they do their jobs based on the politics of the current president?

Without question.

 

[Hutch Starskey]

Do you honestly believe that the carreer gov't workers at the BLS or any agency for that matter, actually change how they do their jobs based on the politics of the current president?

Without question.

Well that makes you a fool.

 

[pinqy]

Do you honestly believe that the carreer gov't workers at the BLS or any agency for that matter, actually change how they do their jobs based on the politics of the current president?

Without question.

And your evidence is? There are no significant differences in private sector employment between BLS and ADP. There are no significant differences in Unemployment rate between BLS and Gallup. there are no significant differences in Inflation between BLS and MIT's Billion Prices Project.

Any manipulation would require close coordination between hundreds of people and then still would risk exposure by other agencies and academia.

 

[Uncensored2008]

Well that makes you a fool.

Yeah, no unionized government worker would try and prop up the dems who give them goodies...

 

[Hutch Starskey]

Well that makes you a fool.

Yeah, no unionized government worker would try and prop up the dems who give them goodies...

Sure.
Well then that must be why the data shows that dem presidents are historically better with the economy then repub presidents.

 

[pinqy]

Well that makes you a fool.

Yeah, no unionized government worker would try and prop up the dems who give them goodies...

I find this conspiracy theory fascinating: your claim is basically that all failures of a Republican could be attributed to the fact that all governmnet workers are actively conspiring against them, and Democrat success are not real but made up by the conspirators, and Democrat failures are still sugar-coated to look better than they really are.

9/11 Truther conspiracies are more convincing.

 

[Uncensored2008]

Well that makes you a fool.

Yeah, no unionized government worker would try and prop up the dems who give them goodies...

I find this conspiracy theory fascinating: your claim is basically that all failures of a Republican could be attributed to the fact that all governmnet workers are actively conspiring against them, and Democrat success are not real but made up by the conspirators, and Democrat failures are still sugar-coated to look better than they really are.

9/11 Truther conspiracies are more convincing.

You have quite the imagination.

I made no such claims, you simply made shit up and responded to it.

Do the career bureaucrats alter how they do their job depending on what party is in power? Of course they do. The democrats are controlled by the unions and they personally benefit from democrats raiding the public treasury on their behalf.

Now where did that say ANYTHING about "republican failures," sparky?

Again, you just make shit up, constructing a straw man from feces.

 

[pinqy]

Well that makes you a fool.

Yeah, no unionized government worker would try and prop up the dems who give them goodies...

I find this conspiracy theory fascinating: your claim is basically that all failures of a Republican could be attributed to the fact that all governmnet workers are actively conspiring against them, and Democrat success are not real but made up by the conspirators, and Democrat failures are still sugar-coated to look better than they really are.

9/11 Truther conspiracies are more convincing.

You have quite the imagination.

I made no such claims, you simply made shit up and responded to it.

It was a logical consequence of your claim. If all government beauracrats are work for the best interest of the Democrats on behalf of their union, and actively support a Democrat President, then logically they would actively work against a Republican President.

Do the career bureaucrats alter how they do their job depending on what party is in power? Of course they do.
.

No, they don't. They really don't. They'll gripe and complain about policies that affect them, but I've never seen nor heard of it affecting how anyone has done his or her job. And neither have you.