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To: Bid Buster who wrote (39140)	10/4/2003 12:12:33 AM
From: pezz	Respond to of 74559

<<<<US ENRONed the job figures.>> What is clearly implied here is that the numbers are phony ... From your link "Total nonfarm payroll employment was little changed (+57,000) in September at 129.9 million."

To: Bid Buster who wrote (39140)	10/4/2003 6:18:09 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 74559

Three years ago, before the recession officially began, 50.3 percent of women ages 55 to 64 were working full- or part-time. As of last month, according to figures released yesterday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, that had risen to 54.1 percent, an increase that becomes even more considerable when compared with every other sector of the workforce. The unemployment rate remained at 6.1 percent in September, and total nonfarm payroll employment was little changed, the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor reported today. The number of jobs in manu- facturing declined at a slower pace than in recent months, while employment in temporary help services continued to trend upward. Just a few old women going part time to pay their medical bills. Nothing more than that. There is no job growth. washingtonpost.com Why the news were ENRONed? To achieve this. Bush Cites Stabilized Jobless Rate Wisconsin Remarks Directed at State He Barely Lost in 2000 The latest unemployment figures offer fresh evidence of an improving economy, President Bush said in Milwaukee. (Morry Gash -- AP) By Amy Goldstein Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, October 4, 2003; Page A07 MILWAUKEE, Oct. 3 -- President Bush said today that the latest unemployment figures offer fresh evidence that his economic policies are succeeding, as he renewed the administration's justification of the war in Iraq and attended his third campaign fundraiser in the Midwest this week. washingtonpost.com