Unemployment/job creation numbers
By dboman
@dboman (457)
United States
June 4, 2010 10:44am CST
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm
Unemployment down from 9.9% to 9.7% in the month of May.
Jobs created: +431,000
Temporary Census jobs: +411,000
Government jobs: +390,000 (the census jobs are included in this number, but are less due to turnover of census workers)
Private Sector jobs: +41,000
So the vast majority of jobs created were temporary and government jobs. SHOCKING! What is going to happen when the census is over? Thoughts?
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6 responses
@laglen (19759)
• United States
4 Jun 10
Also bear in mind that the census workers that were on unemployment will not be eligible anymore. I am thinking that when the census department finishes milking, er um I mean counting the citizens, we will go kaboom. thats all, just a thought
@thegreatdebater (7316)
• United States
5 Jun 10
Laglen, one of the solutions to Census workers was to fill out that damn census. If people would have just filled theirs out we wouldn't need all of these workers. I remember people on here making a big stink about filling it out, now that they cost YOU and ME money shouldn't we be upset with them?
@xfahctor (14118)
• Lancaster, New Hampshire
4 Jun 10
It gets worse. Apparently a whistle blower is now claiming that as a cesus worker, she would work 6 hours or so, be laid off and then rehired and retrained....this was then counted as a "new job" as well. So in addition to keeping these people off of the unemployment figures, they are counting jobs multiple times.
@dboman (457)
• United States
4 Jun 10
Ya, I did hear about this. O'Keefe did a video about it too. My opinion on this though is that these games they're playing with the Census jobs don't really matter because I think most people see that very few private sector jobs are being created and know that this is the important number. The census jobs are basically meaningless.
@snapdragons (91)
• United States
7 Jun 10
I think something like this happened to one of my mom's friends who is a retiree. He went through the training and worked for two days but then they told him that they had too many people working so they were going to have to let him go. Someone called him a couple of days later and told him that they needed him but he had to go through the training all over again. He thought it was a weird thing to do but now I guess I know why.
@bobmnu (8157)
• United States
7 Jun 10
Several weeks ago I talked to a Census worker who quit because of the procedure. The Governemnt bought an expensive computer program to collect the data and then tied it. It did not work so the workers collect the data electronically and then down load it and enter it on to the forms which is then imputed into ifferent a d computer program. the the information had to be hand written on the government form and mailed to Washington DC.
Talk about waste.
@whiteheather39 (24403)
• United States
6 Jun 10
I think this is just another example of how Obama and his bunch of toadies fudge the numbers to make it appear as if the unemployment problem is getting better when it is not. Anything to make this cruddy government seem as if they were doing something to help our country and do another snow job on Obama's adoring fans~
@OpinionatedLady (5966)
• United States
4 Jun 10
Yeah and when all these census people are out of jobs and cannot get unemployment unless the administration steps in how much will this pony show be worth then? This was a great big show not long before elections to make people feel like Obama and his people are doing really good, but in truth so much of what is happening is just like this, a show. The Health care reform which in the end takes 10-14 years to be totally in affect and in truth (by their own White house projections) leaves more middle class people with out insurance then now. A show.
@snapdragons (91)
• United States
7 Jun 10
Some of the people working for the census are retired people who are living on social security. I don't know how many but a few of my mom's friends are doing it for some extra money.
