{"id":2568,"date":"2011-06-04T11:02:01","date_gmt":"2011-06-04T15:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/blog\/?p=2568"},"modified":"2011-06-04T11:02:01","modified_gmt":"2011-06-04T15:02:01","slug":"unemployment-numbers-snark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/economy\/unemployment-numbers-snark\/","title":{"rendered":"Unemployment numbers snark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ace.mu.nu\/archives\/317135.php\">Andy has some prime snark going on over at AoSHQ<\/a>. \u00a0Here is money quote:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">I&#8217;ll limit this quickie post to that nasty 3-letter word: J-O-B-S. Today&#8217;s unemployment report showed that we, Unexpectedly\u2122, added only 54,000 jobs in May and the unemployment rate shot back up to 9.1%. Backing out the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.weeklystandard.com\/blogs\/half-last-months-jobs-came-single-employer-mcdonalds_573220.html\" target=\"_blank\">62,000 jobs added by McDonald&#8217;s<\/a> leaves &#8230; a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2011\/06\/03\/news\/economy\/obama_economy\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">one-term president<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Additionally, coblogger emeritus Geoff pointed out that we&#8217;ve\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bls.gov\/news.release\/empsit.t09.htm\" target=\"_blank\">shed 430,000\u00a0<em>full-time<\/em> jobs in the last couple of months<\/a> and are now back where we began the year. It&#8217;s as if the entire population of Reno cried out in terror and was suddenly\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">silenced<\/span> given a pink slip.<\/p>\n<p>Share and enjoy&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andy has some prime snark going on over at AoSHQ. \u00a0Here is money quote: I&#8217;ll limit this quickie post to that nasty 3-letter word: J-O-B-S. Today&#8217;s unemployment report showed that we, Unexpectedly\u2122, added only 54,000 jobs in May and the unemployment rate shot back up to 9.1%. Backing out the\u00a062,000 jobs added by McDonald&#8217;s leaves [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,50,52,19],"tags":[140,262,294,414,574,584,621,789,839],"class_list":["post-2568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-obama-economy-politics","category-bho-politics","category-politics","tag-barack-obama","tag-democrat","tag-economy","tag-incompetent","tag-obama-economy","tag-one-term-president","tag-politics","tag-unemployment","tag-worst-president-ever"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pab4zg-Fq","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}