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bhikkhu

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7. Slow, steady improvement is best, I've said since 2009

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Fri Dec 5, 2014, 11:35 AM

Dec 2014

- a better and more solid foundation. These numbers are more of the same. Its very good that so many millions of jobs have been created since 2009, but the one thing I've been waiting to see (as has everyone else) is the rise in wages that should correspond to a tightening labor market. Maybe next year?

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Payroll employment increases by 321,000 in November; unemployment rate unchanged at 5.8% [View all] mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2014 OP

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Your response sounds pretty callous, considering majority of people can't afford a four-year degree Leopolds Ghost Dec 2014 #22

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Thanks for posting! BumRushDaShow Dec 2014 #4

Thanks for the thanks. mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2014 #5

Slow, steady improvement is best, I've said since 2009 bhikkhu Dec 2014 #7

"... the one thing I've been waiting to see (as has everyone else) is the rise in wages...." mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2014 #9

Many thanks for all the work, and a nod to the oft-ignored A-16 whatthehey Dec 2014 #8

Thanks again for the thanks. mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2014 #10

Thanks for the reality check. I too am frustrated by those who cling to the narrative that the okaawhatever Dec 2014 #16

Do these numbers include Mad-in-Mo Dec 2014 #12

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Thank you, progree, for citing the "household survey," aka the Current Population Survey (CPS). mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2014 #28

And thank you for almost always being the first one to post the jobs report in LBN progree Dec 2014 #31

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