{"id":381,"date":"2005-10-19T20:17:38","date_gmt":"2005-10-20T00:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=381"},"modified":"2009-10-25T20:21:24","modified_gmt":"2009-10-26T00:21:24","slug":"169000-new-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=381","title":{"rendered":"169,000 New Jobs!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Almost as if on cue, <em>USA Today,<\/em> in its classic &#8220;everything&#8217;s OK, don&#8217;t worry, be happy, nothing to see here&#8221; fashion,<\/strong> ran a big-ass front-page story this week trumpeting in its headline that the economy was &#8220;surging&#8221;. Now, if you know anything at all about <em>USA Today<\/em> &#8212; or, as some of us wags call it, <em>USA Hooray<\/em> &#8212; when you see them using words like &#8220;surging&#8221; in a headline on an economic news story, you can be sure it&#8217;s 99 &amp; 44\/100% pure bullshit.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-382\" title=\"169k_newjobs650w\" src=\"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/169k_newjobs650w.jpg\" alt=\"169k_newjobs650w\" width=\"650\" height=\"730\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/169k_newjobs650w.jpg 650w, http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/169k_newjobs650w-133x150.jpg 133w, http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/169k_newjobs650w-400x449.jpg 400w, http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/169k_newjobs650w-500x561.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But, anyway, assuming you believe <em>USA Today,<\/em> the economy&#8217;s surging again! And, if you checked out the actual breakdown yourself at the Bureau of Labor Statistics, you&#8217;d see that a pretty good chunk of them are rock-bottom-wage &#8220;service&#8221; jobs, not including the handful of &#8220;freelance&#8221; categories you see here &#8212; including a newly-emerging job category showing a huge upswing at the end of the month, shortly after Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans and the Gulf Coasts of Mississippi and Alabama.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"169,000 New Jobs\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/169kjobs\/169000newjobs.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Medium-res jpg image, <\/strong><\/a>1mb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost as if on cue, USA Today, in its classic &#8220;everything&#8217;s OK, don&#8217;t worry, be happy, nothing to see here&#8221; fashion, ran a big-ass front-page story this week trumpeting in its headline that the economy was &#8220;surging&#8221;. Now, if you know anything at all about USA Today &#8212; or, as some of us wags call [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19,10],"tags":[1457,130,99],"class_list":["post-381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bushit","category-economy","category-media","tag-economy","tag-katrina","tag-unemployment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=381"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":384,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions\/384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}