From: ScottW48@hotmail.com   
      
   Swapping full time jobs for part time jobs.   
      
   "Last month, the economy shed a whopping 1.5 million full-time jobs, the   
   biggest monthly plunge since 2020 when the government made it illegal for   
   people to go to work. That wiped out essentially all the full-time jobs that   
   had been gained in 2023.   
      
   December continued the trend of people with full-time jobs having to add a   
   part-time job to their work schedule, as they tried to make ends meet. That   
   rocketed the number of multiple-job holders to a new record high of 8.6   
   million."   
      
   Way to go Joe.   BTW....labor participation is also back to where it was in   
   February.  So they can cheer the low unemployment rate...which is pretty much   
   BS as they AGAIN revised last months new jobs down by about 1/3.   
      
   "those downward revisions to nonfarm payrolls happened for every other month   
   in 2023 except for July. Those changes, combined with a sizeable drop from the   
   annual benchmark revision, effectively revised away about a quarter of all the   
   jobs initially    
   believed to have been added last year."   
      
   ScottW   
      
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