On Sun, 10 Feb 2008 14:34:09 +0000, Stephen wrote:

> Not too bad
> 
> January 16 2008 - The unemployment rate remained at 5.3% - down 0.1%
> over the quarter and down 0.1% on last year. 29.36 million people were
> in work in the period September to November according to the labour
> force survey (LFS). This is the highest on record, up by 175,000 on the
> quarter, and up by 263,000 on the last year.

More or less that demonstrates my point; at the same time, I know they 
play games with the numbers to make them look better than they really 
are, but that's about what I recalled hearing cited on PMQT a couple 
weeks ago. :-)

Jim

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