• foggy@lemmy.world
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    21 hours ago

    This is a meaningless statistic when none of the jobs added can afford rent and groceries.

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      19 hours ago

      You don’t think any of them were in tech, health care, engineering gigs, etc? Personally I rather doubt they’re all teaching positions or something.

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        27 minutes ago

        From the article:

        Restaurants and bars did robust hiring in September, adding 69,000 jobs last month, more than quadrupling their monthly average of 14,000 over the past 12 months, the Labor Department said. The healthcare sector added 45,000 jobs while the government contributed 31,000.

        Other sectors adding jobs in September included social assistance (27,000) and construction (25,000).

        I’m curious about the healthcare jobs, and if these include insurance paper pushers.