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WestSeattle2

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7. With all due respect, I believe I know what would happen to

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Reply #6)

Fri Oct 2, 2015, 10:01 AM

Oct 2015

my complaint. I'm sure their digital round files are chock full of such missives. Some clerks toil 40 hours per week, printing and filing complaints that are then placed in archival binders, recorded and sent to storage, never to see the light of day again. BLS management yawns and utters "whatever" - except when TV cameras show up, then they pretend to care.

Filing complaints with your congressional representative would be more productive, in my opinion. That said, Congress has questioned the validity of BLS numbers for decades.

http://shadowstats.com produces more realistic numbers, in my opinion.

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Payroll employment rises by 142,000 in September; unemployment rate remains at 5.1% [View all] mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2015 OP

Thanks for posting BumRushDaShow Oct 2015 #1

Sheesh; I missed that. mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2015 #2

You do usually put that in your posts BumRushDaShow Oct 2015 #17

President Romney, a grateful nation thanks you and congratulates you in exceeding your ambitious Fred Sanders Oct 2015 #3

Charts about the employed, the unemployed, and people not in the labor force, via BLS Twitter, TWSJ. mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2015 #4

GIGO - my trust in the quality of employment numbers is WestSeattle2 Oct 2015 #5

Point of Contact for Complaints Concerning Information Quality mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2015 #6

With all due respect, I believe I know what would happen to WestSeattle2 Oct 2015 #7

What kind of weird conspiracist crap is that? Recursion Oct 2015 #8

They change the formula used to create calculations...it's nothing new WestSeattle2 Oct 2015 #9

OMG read your own link Recursion Oct 2015 #11

There are continuous attempts to change formulas to downplay WestSeattle2 Oct 2015 #13

Energy and housing are both included in the COLA Recursion Oct 2015 #14

And from 2011... WestSeattle2 Oct 2015 #10

And, again, hilarious epic fail there. Recursion Oct 2015 #12

There was a thread about that at DU last April mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2015 #16

More jobs? Damn that Obama! SpankMe Oct 2015 #15

Are you kidding? The numbers are horrible. 60k jobs less than expected. August revised lower. DesMoinesDem Oct 2015 #18

the numbers SUCK Skittles Oct 2015 #20

Over the past month, over the past year, and since February 2010 progree Oct 2015 #19

Not in Labor Force: 94.610 million. Of these, those who say they want a job: 5.955 million (6.3%) progree Oct 2015 #21

Self-kick: Added much to #21 above -- how it compares to the Bush years, and progree Oct 2015 #22

Self-kick: Added comparisons of U-3 and U-7 today vs. Bush years progree Oct 2015 #23

More charts and analysis on the September nonfarm payroll employment numbers mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2015 #24