Monday, May 06, 2013

BLS statistics 

Total nonfarm employees

JAN 2001 --- 132,548,000
JAN 2009 --- 133,631,000
JAN 2013 --- 134,839,000
APR 2013 --- 135,474,000 (preliminary est.)

Government jobs, all employees

JAN 2001 --- 20,835,000
JAN 2009 --- 22,583,000
JAN 2013 --- 21,858,000
APR 2013 --- 21,844,000 (preliminary est.)

Private employees

JAN 2001 --- 111,713,000
JAN 2009 --- 111,048,000
JAN 2013 --- 112,981,000
APR 2013 --- 113,630,000 (preliminary est.)


Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics
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Tuesday, April 09, 2013

Rising Tide wants your bright ideas 

http://risingtideblog.blogspot.com/2013/04/rising-tide-8-request-for-proposals.html
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Thursday, April 04, 2013

 
http://thelensnola.org/2013/04/02/moseley-gives-bobby-a-break-another-look-at-jindal-nomics/
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Wednesday, March 20, 2013

 
http://thelensnola.org/2013/03/20/letten-at-the-plate-was-the-federal-prosecutor-using-a-corked-bat/
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Monday, March 18, 2013

Beating the Frum 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/mar/18/david-frum-iraq-war-oil Greenwald's first parenthetical is exquisite.
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Friday, March 08, 2013

... on the thin ice of a new day 

But today I don't feel like a Tull embed. How 'bout something bleaker?
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Saturday, March 02, 2013

 
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