Tuesday, June 5, 2012

What's the Real Jobs Number?


The headlines say that the U.S. added just 69,000 jobs last month, but strictly speaking that isn't right. According to the WSJ the real gain was 789,000.

That much bigger number is what you get when look at the job figures that the Labor Department hasn't adjusted for seasonal swings—like the tendency of hotels and home builders to hire more workers on as summer approaches. The aim of the seasonal adjustment is to present data that more accurately reflects the underlying trend of the economy from ...

Find out more at http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303640104577440803121292434.html?mod=WSJ_economy_LEADStoryTop

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