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2017 Job Gains Were Far Better Than We've Been Told
« on: January 24, 2018, 01:22:53 pm »
American Thinker
Joseph Toomey
Jan. 24, 2018

Startling positive reversals in U.S. economic fortunes occurred in 2017.  Not surprisingly, most have either gone unnoticed or been begrudgingly acknowledged by a media establishment consumed by real Trump blunders and an array of politicized myths.  One positive economic reversal that has been overlooked concerns labor market dynamics.

The BLS Employment Situation Report for December 2017 showed a continued slowing pace of Payroll Series job creation compared to the prior seven-year average.  The trend is especially noticeable from the peak in 2014, as depicted in Figure 1.  But the news is far from the negative picture media accounts have portrayed.

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Con-figuration?