Tag Archives: Bureau of Labor Statistics

Jobless Rate Predicted Accurately and What to Infer

Paul J. Devitt The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) fulfilled my prediction from earlier in the year when I said that the government’s reported unemployment rate would fall to below 8% just before the presidential election. Their tricks and treats … Continue reading

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Oops. New, good jobs really come from Big Co’s

As the credibility of the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ “fun with numbers” experiments and other selective reporting methods metastasize and come into greater focus, we learn this weekend that “new experimental studies” by researchers there have discovered that American jobs are not really created … Continue reading

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