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Were you as THRILLED by Friday's BLS Employment Situation Report claiming 192,000 jobs added in March as Obama's camp expected (Part II)?
So how excited should Americans really be? The BLS offers a range of demographic metrics, and those show some Americans benefitting from a modest recovery, while the majority are far from seeing what the Administration and media are trying to sell. Tables A-2, A-3, and A-4 on the March Employment Situation Report are key to understanding who’s benefitting from jobs added, while the middle class feels little to no relief and abandoned without opportunities to return to work. Worth noting is that the survey-based BLS figures are typically calculated from just over 50,000 responses out of 60,000 contacts made by USCB staff. Strategically selected households are rotated at four month intervals, and the .00016 taking part out of 330 million Americans are supposed to be a representative sample, according to the BLS, at a rate of about 3 out of 20,000 households counted nationwide.
While there won’t be an attempt to analyze what former BLS Commissioner John Hall meant when he called the statistics “deeply flawed” in the fall of 2012, a matter of months after leaving, the figures can serve as a barometer with insight into trends. In this case, Table A-4 may be the most telling. That covers the employment status of the civilian population 25 years and over by educational attainment. Among the notable changes in March were a loss of 226,000 jobs for our nation's best educated, categorized as holding bachelor’s or higher degrees. That includes four-year undergraduate, masters, PhD, and
professional degrees. Workers with less higher education are counted as having attended some college or holding associates degrees, and they suffered 86,000 jobs lost nationwide. Of course, the ESR indicated jobs were added, so someone benefitted, right? Job gains appeared for American workers with High School but no college education to the tune of 277,000, while workforce hopefuls with less than a high school diploma were the apparent lottery winners in March, gaining 409,000 jobs overall.
In case the above results seem counterintuitive for what Americans have long been taught, and sold, for credentials that get no respect, it gets worse. For the first time in years, white Americans reportedly gained 539,000 jobs in a month. Of course, that bizarrely out of sync statistic for a demographic that gained only 948,000 jobs over the previous 11 months, and one that remains down 1,559,000 jobs since Obama took Office in 2009, mostly just makes the survey data and seasonally adjusted
figures from BLS statisticians look disingenuous. Hispanics gained 290,000 jobs during March and have been the big winners under Obama, adding 3,673,000 jobs 63 months into this Administration's "change you can believe in." Blacks have also gained jobs at rates far more successful than whites, given each’s percentage in the populace, with 172,000 additional jobs added in March. Since January 2009, blacks have gained 1,227,000 jobs overall, to-date.
The gains of 3.67 million jobs for Hispanics
and 1.23 million for blacks, while whites suffered 1.56 million jobs lost, even after March's inexplicable, unmatched gain, indicates clearly what’s happened to the economy tens of millions have suffered under. Our last census report showed whites counting 72.3% of the population and about 3.5 times the number of unemployed of either minority demographic reported here. Together with the 5.2 million jobs disparity favoring Hispanics and 2.9 million advantage blacks have over white Americans
through March, basic math shows Hispanic candidates secured jobs at rates 18 to 20 times more likely to be hired than a white native born applicant, while blacks were about 10 times as likely to be hired.
Maybe the left should rethink its excitement and forego the braggadocio, because our best educated, and millions with skin color lighter than the president's, still suffer the workforce collapse with no sign of relief.
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- KarenLLv 67 years agoFavorite Answer
No I was not thrilled about those cooked figures. I do feel sorry for the USCB Field Representatives (FRs), who are being pressured to misstate the voluntary nature of the Current Population Survey which is the name of the survey that these data points are collected. Ethnics groups are being pressured to complete the interviews and the FR are penalized for having too many refusals (Per one Supervisor, One refusal is too many! People who do not speak English well, Hmong, Karen, Somali, Aramaic speakers who often know how government force answers are all too wary over not giving answers on income. People must learn that one does not give data any government officials freely. It is never in their best interest. One FR told me that she found it ironic that several months ago, while she was asking about schools --- she had to ask a question about bullying, the wife said in Somali to her husband (which the FR understands) --- "Why is she asking about bullying in schools when we cannot get rid of her coming every month?" The FR told me that this poor man is worried that if he does not talk to the government he will lose his taxi license or get investigated on his visa ... Fear is a motivator to make people give data that they do not want to give.
- TheKittenLv 77 years ago
"job creation" is all well and good, but what's happening is there's a huge race to the bottom around the world.
The problem is not "jobs". We should be much more discerning. The crisis is there are no longer "good jobs". Most of what is being created is undignified survival stuff that under-utilizes human potential. Why should we jump for joy over that? It's like saying: I have A girlfriend. If she's a crack whore, that's not exactly cause for celebration.
- Anonymous7 years ago
OK , 192,000 jobs added in March , but the bad news is 392,000 lost Obama did not mention that part
and still 25 million still unemployed from his first 4.5 years ,,,
I just gave up and filed for SSDI , so I will never have to go back to work
not that its possible to do that anyway
ACTUALLY I THINK JIMMY CARTER WAS A BETTER PRESIDENT AT LEAST HE DID NOT SEND MONEY TO IRAN
- 7 years ago
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- GolferLv 77 years ago
BLS? With that I can conclude you mean Bull, lies and Stretch the truth. We gain how many jobs? Then compare that to the amount of jobs we have lost the last 5 years.
- Anonymous7 years ago
Apparently some people have gotten so accustomed to low numbers they think 192k jobs is good. Obama's job deficit is huge. 192k is barely half of the jobs needed just to break even with population growth and wages continue to fall. Obama has been a jobs failure.
- YB LogicalLv 77 years ago
192,000 new jobs might be considered good news if not for the fact that there were 320,000 new sign-ups for unemployment during the same time period, leaving a net loss of 128,000 jobs.
- 7 years ago
The economy will recover on its own, thinking that Obama had anything to do with it is asinine. You clearly need some education. Try to educate yourself on an economy, spending money doesn't guarantee jobs. People support an economy, not the government.
- MichaelLv 47 years ago
To be fair, the overwhelming majority of BLS reports go through multiple corrections as more data comes in. The numbers can swing wildly in either direction. I don't trust anything that's not at least 6 months old, and the accuracy jumps a lot after the next fiscal year deadline rolls by.
I find it best just to ignore these things for a while. Otherwise you either:
a) look like an idiot for claiming how the numbers mean the administration is worthless (and then they get corrected higher), or
b) look like an idiot for claiming the numbers mean the administration is best thing since sliced bread (and then they get corrected lower).
- ?Lv 67 years ago
No, because even though it was quite good it wasn't what the administration expected.
And most were Fast Food/Restaurant adding jobs.
