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To: 10K a day who wrote (84819)8/12/2007 2:45:22 PM
From: MetacometRead Replies (3) | Respond to of 306849
 
"Traders are puzzled over why the US Bureau of Labor Statistics has shown no change in the number of construction jobs from eighteen months ago,..."

Illegals aren't counted as employed or fired.

The marginal fluctuations in constructions workers are absorbed and hidden in the number of illegals working in the industry.