@btrinen @BagOfNails @Kathmandu @futurebird Oh, and they're always limited to "non-farm payrolls" because it's really hard to get reliable data from farms.
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Our president just fired the Labor Secretary because the most recent jobs numbers didn't match his feelings about how good the economy is.@btrinen @BagOfNails @Kathmandu @futurebird There are two surveys, known as the "household survey" and the "establishment survey". The household survey asks people if they have a job (and if so, how many hours they are working, or if not whether they are looking for one); the establishment survey asks employers how many employees they have. These methods often disagree — and also disagree with official state-based unemployment figures.