{"id":46428,"date":"2014-08-15T12:20:30","date_gmt":"2014-08-15T17:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=46428"},"modified":"2014-12-12T10:30:25","modified_gmt":"2014-12-12T16:30:25","slug":"all-that-dfl-happy-talk-about-the-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=46428","title":{"rendered":"All That DFL Happy Talk About The Economy&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/tcbmag.com\/News\/Recent-News\/2014\/August\/MN-Lost-4,200-Jobs-In-July-While-Jobless-Rate-Held\">is baked wind.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?attachment_id=35213\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-35213\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-35213\" title=\"DaytonDustbowl\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/DaytonDustbowl.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"152\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Minnesota lost 4,200 jobs in July,\u00a0and is adding them at an anemic pace year-to-date:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>State officials said Thursday that Minnesota employers shed a seasonally adjusted 4,200 jobs in July. Meanwhile, they also revised June\u2019s numbers downward by 3,600 jobs.<\/p>\n<p>That means that, year-to-date, Minnesota has added a meager 2,900 jobs, or about 400 per month, on an adjusted basis.<\/p>\n<p>During July, the education and health services sector lost 5,300 jobs. Information shed 1,000; construction, 700; financial activities, 200; and government, 100.<\/p>\n<p>The sectors that added jobs: trade, transportation, and utilities (up 1,600); manufacturing (700); leisure and hospitality (600); and other services (200). Logging and mining, and professional and business services held steady.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Look for the Alliance for a Better Minnesota&#8217;s lie machine to fabricate a lot of phony economic happytalk in the next ten weeks; as we discussed earlier, <a title=\"Swirling About The Drain\" href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=46331\">they&#8217;re off to a running start<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>No &#8211; a <em>lot<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;is baked wind. \u00a0Minnesota lost 4,200 jobs in July,\u00a0and is adding them at an anemic pace year-to-date: State officials said Thursday that Minnesota employers shed a seasonally adjusted 4,200 jobs in July. Meanwhile, they also revised June\u2019s numbers downward by 3,600 jobs. That means that, year-to-date, Minnesota has added a meager 2,900 jobs, or about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[321,323,57,117,74,127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-left","category-big-leftymoney","category-economy-and-the-market","category-dayton-dustbowl","category-the-great-recession","category-the-incredible-shrinking-governor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46428"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49717,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46428\/revisions\/49717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}