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Old 11-19-2010, 06:33 PM
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No, the "couple hundred thou" is a net gain. The thing is a lot of the people who found jobs recently were people who had been out of work for so long that they weren't part of the statistic any more. Now they're coming back into the job market(looking fro work) because things are moving in the right direction. It caused a little statistical weirdness (an increase in the rate from 9.7% to 9.9%).

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Old 11-19-2010, 06:49 PM
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We finally dropped to 12.9% yippie...
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Old 11-20-2010, 05:38 PM
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We finally dropped to 12.9% yippie...
After the first of January that type of number will be a sign of the coming "Golden Age".

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