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Originally Posted by (Impenitent,) we had 2 quarters of growth...
we had 57,000 new jobs created last month...
all that was hearlded was gloom and doom about the lack of new jobs created... if it was clinton it would have been called new job creation and growth but since it is bush it is focus on the bad... the whole point was to see the whole picture not just the myopic view from the left...
statistics? ha! statistically speaking 100% of people who eat apples are dead... (they ate them in the year 1790) please, tell me about statistics... all you are doing is continuing the doom and gloom...<hr size="1" /></blockquote><span class='postcolor'>
Guess how many layoffs though?
MASS LAYOFFS IN AUGUST 2003
Employers initiated 1,258 mass layoff actions in August 2003, as
measured by new filings for unemployment insurance benefits during the
month, according to data from the U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of
Labor Statistics. Each action involved at least 50 persons from a single
establishment, and the number of workers involved totaled 133,839. (See
table 1.) Compared with August 2002, both the number of layoff events and
the number of initial claims increased, marking the first over-the-year
increase in mass-layoff initial claims since May 2002.
ftp://ftp.bls.gov/pub/news.release/Histor...s.09252003.news