Not only that, but while the US allegedly added 353K jobs, and employment dropped by 31K, full-time jobs actually declined by 63K and part-time jobs surged by 96K,
That's when I knew the 353,000 was bogus.
Yup, it's the same crap they've been pulling the past 3 years...game the numbers, see the new numbers and be forced to do a prior period adjustment and blame it on x,y,z...rinse/repeat...
And the real shift from FT to PT and the steady flow of people out of the labor market continues...
And some of these outfits reporting good quarterly returns is through allowable accounting gimmicks like restructurings and such and the layoffs that they spawn...
Same BS that keeps happening at my crap run outfit...but, I don't care...I'm near the end...retirement/layoff...can't say I really care what happens next...although a layoff might have me walk away with a few more bucks...