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Employment Data Doesn’t Add Up

Friday February 05, 2010 @ 12:58pm IAM&AW International
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February 05, 2010 - In a telling example of how the government’s official employment numbers don’t paint a reliable picture of the nation’s economy, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) today announced the unemployment rate fell from 10.0 percent to 9.7 percent. Meanwhile, the same department reports that 20,000 more jobs were lost in January.

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