Solid Jobs Report With A Delicious Bonus!

Decrease regulation. Decrease the drain on the economy by parasitic government employees. Send a clear signal that American manufacturing is paramount. Decrease the barriers to domestic production. Begin to even the playing field with regard to cheap imports subsidized by foreign governments.

These are obvious and rational policies that every American politician should embrace, yet one half of them champion exactly the opposite!

Here is the March Bureau of Labor Statistics report. It's long and repetitive, but here are a couple of paragraphs that are nice to see.

Total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 178,000 in March, and the unemployment rate changed little at 4.3 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Job gains occurred in health care, in construction, and in transportation and warehousing. Federal government employment continued to decline.

But here is the best part...

Federal government employment continued to decline in March (-18,000). Since reaching a peak in October 2024, federal government employment is down by 355,000, or 11.8 percent. Federal employees on furlough during the partial government shutdown were counted as employed in the establishment survey because they worked or received (or will receive) pay for the pay period that included the 12th of the month.

posted by CBD at 01:15 PM

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