Comments on: May Jobs Report: First Impressions

By: Jared Bernstein

Jared Bernstein — Sun, 03 Jun 2012 00:38:33 +0000

I believe that month was inflated by workers hired to take the decennial Census.

By: rjs

rjs — Sat, 02 Jun 2012 19:31:07 +0000

this is off the wall; looking at your chart, i notice over 500K jobs added in may 2010 – if i recall, the severe job losses were over in early 2009, hence may of that year was better too…

could the seasonal adjustments skew subsequent Mays? i believe they take the last 5 years into account…

NB: unadjusted job gains were nearly 800K: http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t17.htm

By: Ralf

Ralf — Sat, 02 Jun 2012 16:08:39 +0000

How would employment look if mass layoffs of teachers, state and federal workers hadn’t been the order of the day from the deficit panic crowd.

By: Rima Regas

Rima Regas — Sat, 02 Jun 2012 02:10:34 +0000

Let’s not forget that the 99ers are now losing their unemployment benefits, as per Congressional limits from this winter. For those who’ve been out of a job since 08 there are no words can describe how much of an insult to injury this is going to be.

I don’t see you on Google+. You should try it. Lots of interest in economics…

By: Fred Donaldson

Fred Donaldson — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 17:54:43 +0000

We need to lower taxes for the job-creators. Every new mansion they build for their fun, means more bathrooms and thus more opportunity for janitorial jobs.