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Did Government Retirements Distort January’s Economic Data by Softening the Payroll Numbers?

February 8, 2010
Did Government Retirements Distort January’s Economic Data by Softening the Payroll Numbers?

While last Friday’s jobs report for January had good news that unemployment declined from 10 to 9.7%, payrolls declined by 20,000, below consensus estimates that the economy would gain 15,000 jobs. 1  This raises the question of how both unemployment and the number of people with jobs can be going down at the same time. ...
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