Very few others are saying it, so I will. Congratulations, Mr. President.

[progree]

48. Part-time jobs went up by just 10 k while Full-time jobs went up by 2.1 M over the past 12 mos

according to the Table A-9 figures (indicating part-time jobs were about 0.5% of the total).

(which differ from the Table A-8 figures, a discrepancy I haven't yet been able to figure out, oh well, though over the past 12 months it tells the same general story: new part time jobs were a small fraction (9.1% in the Table A-8 case) of all new jobs)

See http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025189920#post34
where I battle with the Table A-8 figures.

The month - to - month changes in the numbers in the Household Survey where these numbers come from are extremely very volatile -- they zig way up one month and zig way down another month. The vast majority of that volatilility is plain old statistical noise, but unfortunately it gives the righties the aberrant statistic of the month to make it like most of the jobs created under "Obummer" or "Oduhmuh" are part-time.

Here for example are the last 12 monthly changes of the table A-9 Full-Time jobs figures (in thousands)

69 145 582 -577 645 327 378 163 184 412 312 -523

And the Part-Time jobs figures (in thousands)

176 -296 -467 -210 250 -89 168 -210 365 -398 -78 799

Zig Zag Zig Zag Zig Zag Zig Zag Zig Zag Zig Zag Zig Zag Zig Zag Zig

Every month when the Jobs Report comes out, we go through this same shit. One month the part-time jobs numbers are embarrasing. (then next month there's a huge gain in full-time jobs and a modest drop in part time jobs but the righties don't mention that because it fucks up their meme about "Obummer" being hamburger flipper-in-chief. Instead they find another aberrant statistic of the month to make an extreme hoo hah over, like a gazillion people left the labor force (next month a whole bunch entered the labor force but nobody says anything about that) Sigh, instead on to the next aberrant Household Survey statistic of the month -- there's always at least one. ALWAYS ALWAYSY ALSWYS,;l'5rtjtg).

I'll write more about this later after I update my DU "website" (see my signature line) for the job report.

Thanks very much for pointing out the 1 year change in full-time jobs (2.1 million) rather than just giving out the one-month figure. This screed isn't aimed at you.