"Doug Kanter" wrote in message
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"NOYB" wrote in message
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Since June 2003, the economy has seen 27 straight months of net job
gains...yielding a *net* gain of 4,172,000 jobs over that same period.


In the last 18 months alone, we've added 3,533,000 jobs.

Since the election, we've added 1,837,000 jobs.

The unemployment rate stands at 4.9%...which is exactly where it was
prior to 9/11.

Unfortunately, Katrina will probably have a negative impact on the
numbers for the next few months.

http://tinyurl.com/dnb7a

These numbers are meaningless without information on how peoples' incomes
have changed as they take these "new" jobs.

Then I could argue that the numbers from the 90's are meaningless without
information on how many single-earner households became two income
households out of necessity during that time period. And how much the second
income earner's money contributed to a boost in GDP each year.



We know that YOU like to think
in terms of evil welfare recipients whose incomes are headed upward when
they get jobs. However, the grownup news has carried numerous stories
about people who were in the 50k-75k white collar category and had to take
nasty pay cuts in order to find ANY job in the area where they preferred
to live.


That's because you listen to those wacky liberal news stations like NPR.



Try again, but with real data, this time. And, if you have some spare
time, take a course in statistics.

Real data? If I can't get the data from BLS, where am I supposed to get it
from?