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Default FOX NEWS: Recession Coming? What Economists think



"Scott Lurndal" wrote in message
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Frank "frank writes:
On 8/20/2019 9:40 AM, rbowman wrote:
On 08/20/2019 04:04 AM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
U.S. Steel Plans to Lay off Hundreds of Workers in Michigan

https://news.yahoo.com/u-steel-lay-o...001654862.html


Hard to compete with Bangladesh when using green power and watching your
CO2.


Just heard someone pointing out that the manufacturing sector is only
about 10% of our economy which seems a little low to me but they also
said that the services sector which is the major part is booming and on
balance the job market is very good.


Just heard someone point out that the moon is made of green cheese.

For something with, you know, actual data, try this

https://www.bls.gov/

Note particularly the definition of "unemployment".

https://www.bls.gov/cps/lfcharacteristics.htm#unemp


https://www.bls.gov/spotlight/2015/l...yment/home.htm


Even the more relaxed measure of unemployment is still very low.
One of the lowest in the OECD in fact. And that uses the relaxed number.