The jobs report is a perfect example of fake news
Folllowing up on Dobriens article on Fake News, here is one that shows how the government engenders it with their "data" that is presented in so many variations, you can either say we are all unemployed, or all working our a@@es off. Just pick and choose your fact. Same thing with the vaunted Consumer Price Index, probably one of the ultimate fake news stories out there.
Since there are no published numbers on this group, it is difficult to tell the true impact they would have on the "Government" number.
Oh darn, Trump has China angry with him already like we couldn't see that coming. He has the left even more angry over this and all we should be doing right now is following the money.
It all reminds me of surrealistic scenes from "Alice in Wonder Land".
I just read the article and you are right you could pull many different conclusions.
Regarding upward mobility I have sensed for a decade or so a lack of. I recently received Imprimus from Hillsdale College and that was the topic. Their evidence clearly showed we the US were about tied with Great Britain for the worst upward mobility in the world. I guess the govt. with these bull ship statistics are saying "don't believe your lying eyes " Thanks for adding this
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Regards ,
DOB
"To hide" in other words.
1. It comes close to saying there can be no real news, no reality, just "framing".
2. It's victim mentality to complain about a statistic without offering an alternative. e.g. looking at reports from payroll and benefit management companies like Paychex and TASC.
3. It focuses on more negative ways to look at statistics, not positive actions you could take such as taking an investment position or pursuing a business strategy.
The victim reader will read this and learn the gov't is lying to him, there's no way to get to the truth, and this explains why his life sucks. The go-getter will ignore it, find a way to help others for money, do a good job, have more customers than she can handle, and then actually CREATE one of those jobs that can be framed one way or another.
Also - you used the magic word "STATISTIC." It is a tribute to the ingenuity of man, that that word can be used in so many ways in order to prove or disprove the very same thing. I've seen the same statistic used to prove or disprove the same argument.
If reality is real, though, at least one of those proofs has a flaw in it.