[lbo-talk] Stupid question

[Alexandre Fenelon]

How did USA unemployment decrease by 0,2% if no jobs were created.
In a country with an active population of 170M, there wouldn´t be
necessary to create 340,000 jobs to decrease unemployment by 0,2%?
Or is it an artificial effect of people leaving the workforce (and
in this case unemployment rate would be a meaningless measurement?)
But the discouraged people, according to BLS, didn´t change from
last year. And why overall civilian workforce is not increasing
if the population is obviously doing so?????

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm

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