http://www.davisenterprise.com/forum/our-view/good-news-on-the-jobs-front/ Yolo County, California Thu, 16 Apr 2015 17:11:01 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.1 http://www.davisenterprise.com/forum/our-view/good-news-on-the-jobs-front/comment-page-1/#comment-427117 Sat, 15 Jun 2013 20:20:35 +0000 http://www.davisenterprise.com/?p=328781#comment-427117 We all want good news. However, a drop in the normally quoted unemployment rate (U-3) can be quite misleading. In fact, the majority of the recent decrease has been discouraged workers who stop looking. One recent month, this figure was in the 800,000 plus range. No data could ever exist that would make Obama or Bernanke consider decreasing spending. For better or worse, they will sign any check if give a pen.

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