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2017-05-06 Economy

CNN: "the US is now at or near "full employment""

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Posted by Skidmark 2017-05-06 01:35|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ] Top

#1 Cut welfare and you will find the USA is far below full employment.

Posted by phil_b 2017-05-06 03:54|| 2017-05-06 03:54|| Front Page Top

#2 Not quite. Need another 5 million jobs to catch up to pre-Obama levels when the US was already in a recession.

BLS Labor Force Statistics

Posted by Thereth and Company9872 2017-05-06 04:11|| 2017-05-06 04:11|| Front Page Top

#3 BLS stats are as reliable as NASA/NOAA historical weather temp records. Cooked be cooked.

Posted by P2Kontheroad 2017-05-06 06:33|| 2017-05-06 06:33|| Front Page Top

#4 At or near full employment?! It's willing ignorance like this that will be the MSM's complete undoing.

Posted by gorb 2017-05-06 06:56|| 2017-05-06 06:56|| Front Page Top

#5 "the US is now at or near "full employment"

Except for all those employed people who dropped off the employment rolls during the Great Recession.

Posted by JohnQC 2017-05-06 09:29|| 2017-05-06 09:29|| Front Page Top

#6 ...I'm going to guess that by the end of the week, the Media will suddenly rediscover the U-5 and U-6 rates that they so studiously ignored while The Lightbringer was in office.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2017-05-06 10:16|| 2017-05-06 10:16|| Front Page Top

#7 ShadowStats

Posted by newc 2017-05-06 11:05|| 2017-05-06 11:05|| Front Page Top

#8 Fake news.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2017-05-06 12:16|| 2017-05-06 12:16|| Front Page Top

#9 Complete bullshit - it took Reagan years to recover from Carter's bullshit. Trump hasn't been able to fully repeal Obamacare & cut taxes, the latter of which helped Reagan a great deal. I wish CNN would fall into that black hole Don Lemon loved talking about.

Posted by Raj 2017-05-06 14:56|| 2017-05-06 14:56|| Front Page Top

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