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Roland99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-13-06 10:19 PM
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Down and Dirty; Plain and Simple - Jobs Numbers since Jan. 2001 >>>>
Edited on Mon Mar-13-06 10:21 PM by Roland99
From http://data.bls.gov/PDQ/servlet/SurveyOutputServlet?data_tool=latest_numbers&series_id=CES0000000001&output_view=net_1mth

Numbers below are in thousands

Net jobs 2001-2006.................................2305
Equilibrium jobs (160k/mo).........................9920
Shortage..............................................-7615
Net jobs since 2003 Q4............................4894
Equilibrium jobs (160k/mo).........................4640
Gain.......................................................254


There's been a net gain of 254,000 jobs since Oct. 2003. Wow.


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jschurchin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-13-06 10:23 PM
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1. Yeah..........
McDonalds and Wal-Mart are hiring like crazy!!!!!!!!!!!
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Roland99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-13-06 10:25 PM
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2. Actually, full-time jobs are surpassing part-time jobs....however
http://www.jobwatch.org/email/jobwatch_20050708.html


But, those full-time jobs are increasingly offering fewer and fewer (or no) healthcare benefits or pensions:
http://www.epinet.org/datazone/05/health_ins.pdf
http://www.epinet.org/datazone/05/pension_ins.pdf
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awoke_in_2003 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-13-06 11:58 PM
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3. But McDonalds
is an factory assembly job (at least according to Little Lord Pissypants)
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