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Our own unemployment metric, the Solman Scale, found unemployment ticked down slightly to 15.6 percent. Photo courtesy of John Moore/Getty Images. Not yeah! Not feh! But, as has been the usual response to most monthly jobs reports since the recovery began four years ag stanley cup o, more like meh.I ;m collecting non-inspiring adjectives if anyone has others. Soft, tepid, meh. Others RT @djheakin: This is an extremely flat report鈥?Neil Irwin @Neil_Irwin October 22, 2013That one way to express the sentiment most frequently heard today about the September numbers, stanley cup 18 days delayed due to the partial government shutdown.Yes, unemployment is down a tad, though I continue to see evidence that it because of those 10,000 baby boomers a day hitting retirement age, and most of them, if not so many as in the past, calling it quits. The evidence is a slightly shrinking labor force, even as the population grows. Yes, 148,000 jobs were created, if we ;re to believe this month numbers and yes, the summer jobs total was revised upward by 9,00 stanley cup 0.But as the Atlanta Federal Reserve glum calculator reveals, to achieve the full employment rate of 4 percent last seen under President Bill Clinton, the economy would need to add 143,000 jobs a month for more than a dozen years. Non-stop.Yes, our own all-inclusive reckoning of under- and unemployment, U-7, reported here every month, ticked down to 15.6 percent from 15.7 percent. Qxnt Gwen s Take: Political High Wire Acts
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