Updated month over month nonfarm payroll employment chart (as shown on Rachels show)

[HughMoran]

No need for comment.

[tonysam]

1. That doesn't begin to cover the massive numbers of unemployed

It's just a tiny drop in the bucket.

It is horrible out here in the real world.

[WeDidIt]

2. Fixing eight years of the Republcians completely FUCKING the middle class will take time

IT can't happen over night, but obviously there is progress.

[scheming daemons]

3. Actually... mathematically... it DOES "begin" to cover it

It's just a beginning.


But we've now gained jobs two months in a row. Nearly every jobs report since the stimulus passed has been better than the previous one.


Our economy is a super tanker.... it takes a while to turn around. But the chart clearly shows that it is turning.


Yes... it is horrible out here in the "real world".



But it is a lot less horrible than it was a year ago. And it is much much much less horrible than it was when Bush was President.

[HughMoran]

4. Did I have to draw in a linear interpolation line showing the steady upward slope?

Knowing that these numbers can't change instantaneously from loss to gain, what logical argument is there that there is anything more that Obama could have done to turn the ship around any faster?

[scheming daemons]

5. There is no logical argument.... some people are emotionally invested in our country failing

Rush Limbaugh said it most bluntly.... but there are lots of people that want things in this country to collapse... and no amount of good news will dissuade them.

[HughMoran]

7. Look what happened after Reagan passed his stimulus package of tax cuts ->

:rofl:

Republicans just do a better job of not eating their own :eyes:

[Brickbat]

6. I really dislike that chart.

I think it's easy to misunderstand how very many jobs have been lost.

[karynnj]

8. I disagree

It i very easy to see the "area" below the axis, where jobs were lost vs the much smaller "area" above the axis, where jobs were gained.

It shows for a long series of months huge numbers of jobs were lost.

[scheming daemons]

9. The chart clearly shows how many jobs were lost....

...add up all those bars on the negative side.


What the chart DOES show is that virtually every month since Obama was sworn in, the numbers improved from the previous month.

[HughMoran]

10. Here, I improved it to show the linear direction of the chart and the red of Bush

[HughMoran]

11. It isn't designed to show that number

There are charts for that, this one is to emphasize the turning of the supertanker.