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"Okay, so 300,000 new jobs in the past three months. But how many people lost their jobs in that same time frame? This number has apparently been buried. I haven't read a single article on the story that took the cumulative numbers into account. I suspect this number is not insignificant.
Add to that the fact that the new jobs are low-paying and temporary and part-time (sounds mostly to be holiday season work to me) and I don't understand the widespread good cheer I've seen in the press."
Anyone who wants to work can find work. When people are unemployed it is usually because they are receiving unemployment compensation, severence packages, or just living off of savings. If they really needed to go to work they would. Also, these official numbers don't take into account the "underground" economy. Do you think a skilled carpenter would ever have to be unemployed unless he wanted to be?
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