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Wiz Imp

(5,158 posts)
23. No. You are completely 100% wrong
Fri Apr 4, 2025, 11:11 AM
Apr 4

Trust me. I worked on these programs for 35 years. The surveys are national surveys and the labor force and jobs numbers are calculated by BLS employees located in DC from the nationwide data/information collected from the surveys of households and employer establishments.

BLS is compiling nothing. State numbers are generated completely independently of the national numbers.

Quit digging. You do not know what you are talking about.

The only national numbers which are compiled from state numbers are the weekly unemployment claims numbers which states report weekly to ETA, not BLS. Those are actual counts of claims NOT from a survey. (I oversaw the reporting of those numbers as well). Those numbers have zero connection to the labor force and jobs numbers released today.

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An independent group gab13by13 Apr 4 #1
yep. nt ImNotGod Apr 4 #4
That other group mainly polls their own subscribers BumRushDaShow Apr 4 #7
The ADP numbers are "actuals" for about 20% of the private workforce. How they estimate the other 80% progree Apr 4 #10
How can so many people get laid off and the numbers rise? Weird? walkingman Apr 4 #2
A lot of them may not have filed for UE yet due to court rulings BumRushDaShow Apr 4 #6
And both surveys were taken in the week containing March 12, if the usual practice was followed progree Apr 4 #8
And there have been a billion court rulings over that time BumRushDaShow Apr 4 #9
UE #'s TalentAgency Apr 4 #13
Most data is by "survey" BumRushDaShow Apr 4 #16
Wrong. Wiz Imp Apr 4 #18
BLS does their various "surveys" BumRushDaShow Apr 4 #20
No. You are completely 100% wrong Wiz Imp Apr 4 #23
"jobs numbers are calculated by BLS employees located in DC " BumRushDaShow Apr 4 #25
I don't know why you refuse to accept it, but you still have several facts wrong. Wiz Imp Apr 4 #28
"The national job numbers are calculated by plugging the survey responses into a mathematical formula. " BumRushDaShow Apr 4 #29
OK. One last response and I'm done. Wiz Imp Apr 4 #30
"How is that ignoring it?" BumRushDaShow Apr 4 #31
I'm delurking long enough to note that this week's report on unemployment claims numbers is here too. mahatmakanejeeves Apr 4 #27
Are the drumpf administration numbers reliable? biophile Apr 4 #3
to answer, no, there is no way he will allow any negative reports. nt ImNotGod Apr 4 #5
At this point, I'm inclined to say they are still honest Wiz Imp Apr 4 #19
Who's hiring? mdbl Apr 4 #11
The "health" cuts just started up towards the end of last month and into this month BumRushDaShow Apr 4 #12
From the source, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: mahatmakanejeeves Apr 4 #14
The economy is propelled by the last of the momentum Marthe48 Apr 4 #15
The last sputtering gasps of the Biden Boom! Finished in 2 months by an orange bloated lying fraudster wolfie001 Apr 4 #17
I just saw in the linked article from CNBC Wiz Imp Apr 4 #21
But how many have been reinstated by the courts? BumRushDaShow Apr 4 #22
The best I can tell about 25,000 have been reinstated by the courts. Wiz Imp Apr 4 #24
I found the NYT is doing a running tally and apparently the "275,000" is just an "announced" number BumRushDaShow Apr 4 #26
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