Zero Manufacturing Jobs Added. Zero.

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95. Good catch. Lots of "typos". Sigh. Ur reward: manufacturing employment data for ur viewing pleasure

[font color = blue]OP's excerpt of TruthOut.org article>> But with the March jobs numbers out this morning the economy has created a total of only 39,000 manufacturing jobs this year — zero in March.

While the jobs report was not too bad overall, it was terrible for manufacturing. Job growth for January and February was revised up by 114,000, so average job growth for the last three months was 212,000. << [/font]


[font color = red]DallasNE#68>The Latest Reporting Period Is April

So is "March" just a typo or is this data from a month ago? Because they talk about revisions to January and February I suspect this is data from a month ago, otherwise they would be taking about revisions to February and March.<< [/font]

The "March" is a typo (or fuckup), it should be "April". The "January and February" should be "February and March" (another, err, typo). With these changes, all the numbers in the excerpt above matches the jobs report that included April that came out Friday, May 3. http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm

Good catch!

Here's some stuff on manufacturing --

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm Manufacturing employment was unchanged in April.

Manufacturing: 6th row: http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.b.htm Feb, Mar, Apr: +23, +2, +0 (thousands)
19th row http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t17.htm
Up only 70,000 since April 2012, one year ago. (Apr'13/Apr'12)
Up only 149,000 since January 2012, 15 months ago. (Apr'13/Jan'12)
Jan.2012: 11,841, Apr.2012: 11,920, Apr.2013: 11,990.

Series Id: CES3000000001
Seasonally Adjusted
Super Sector: Manufacturing, Industry: Manufacturing,
Data Type: ALL EMPLOYEES, THOUSANDS

1 MONTH CHANGE


Notice that the 1-month change figures began improving in 2/09 - the month following Obama's inauguration. Though it took a year to turn positive. Also interesing -- the "plus" area in the Obama era is better than the "plus" area in the Bush era.

More: http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CES3000000001

To see the 1-month change at the above link, click on "More Formatting Options" at the upper right and then on the page that appears, be sure both the "Original Data Value" and "1-Month Net Change" boxes are checked. Don't forget to check the "include graphs" checkbox. You might also want to set the period from January 2000 to present to see the last year of the Clinton administration through April 2013. Then click "Retrieve Data".

Happiness is finally figuring out how to find the BLS Series Numbers (it's kind of tedious, but do-able)