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Amazing Math from the Bureau of Labor Statistics
According to the most recent Bureau of Labor
Statistics release, the UE (unemployment) rate fell to 5.5% as of
February. The last time the UE rate was this low was May of 2008.
What I’m fascinated by is the fact that the US population grew from
February 2008 to February 2015 by 16.8 million persons, or a 5.5%
increase in total population, and on a net basis, not a single one of those 16.8 million persons got a FT (full time) job… while a net 2.7 million were lucky enough to get a (or multiple) PT (part time) job.This means that 14.3 million persons, or 4.4% of the current US population, were added without a single job among them (chart below). This makes for fascinating math when a 4.4% increase of the total US population without jobs can nearly halve the UE rate down to 5.5%, equal to 2008’s UE rates?!?
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-03-07/amazing-math-bls-how-america-added-17-million-jobs-7-years-and-zero-full-time-jobs
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