Sounds like job growth is being misunderestimated.

[barman]

Yeah, Tanaka, the favorite goof down here in Florida is all the new employees of THE HOMELAND SECURITY DEPARTMENT.

My wife's best friend (age 35) started dating a guy a couple months ago. We ask, so what kind of work does dude do?

Oh, he's with The HSD.

So my wife is picturing 'law enforcement' man....rugged, tough, steady customer...

I told her, "He's probably checking baggage at the airport" and she sez, No, my friend likes guys with more resume than that."

Turns out I'm SPOT ON! Dude indeed is the security dude checking women's panties for bomb residue.

Hey, any job in a storm is better than unemployment.

I know that in our neck of the woods, the economy is suffering past 3 years worse than I've seen it since I entered the business world 28 years ago.

 

[Oceans11]

Stats manipulation is an old trick, and once the distortion starts, it never stops.

Thatcher was notorious for it.

A school leaver who could not find a job was not an unemployed person.
Because they had never been EMPLOYED, they were not classed as UNemployed. ergo, less jobless young people.
The youngsters were put on income support, not unemployment benefit.

At the other end, old dudes who weren't finding jobs were put on the DSS sick benefit after a couple of years, so they weren't unemployed either...

There were about 30 changes like this, to reduce the stats figures.