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Job Disinformation From The New York Times!

On Friday Feb. 3 the Bureau of Labor Statistics released the nonfarm payroll jobs report for January. New York Times reporter Vikas Bajaj wrote an upbeat news story, obviously based on a Labor Department press release rather than any study of the BLS report. If the rosy view of Ethan Harris, chief economist for Lehman Brothers is typical, Wall Street has no more idea than Bajaj of what the jobs report really says. Americans are not being told the truth about anything, not about Iraq, not about Iran, not about terrorism, and not about the disastrous state of their economy. The information is available, but the people have no way of finding out about the economy if they are not trained economists with some knowledge of the data (except by watching Lou Dobbs on TV). Few economists themselves will tell them, because if they do they will lose their corporate and government grants. It is not in the corporations? interest or the Bush administration?s interest for Americans to know what is happening to them. Download

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