Tuesday, January 8, 2013

Job stats: Don’t let arithmetic get in the way

If you aren’t confused yet about what the economy is doing, you haven’t been paying close enough attention to recent news reports.
Take, for example, last Friday’s employment report in which the Labor Department announced the nation’s unemployment rate in December was “unchanged at 7.8 percent” from November’s level. That’s easy enough to understand — until you look back at the November report when “the unemployment rate edged down to 7.7 percent.”

Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/job_stats_don_let_arithmetic_get_vHKWg08Ob2grgGQZ0CEDfP

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