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ECONOMICS REPORT - Measuring Jobs in U.S. (2/3)
The Labor Department also said almost sixty thousand more jobs were created in
June and July than first reported.
President Bush said the new information shows that the "economy is strong
and getting stronger." Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry saw the
numbers differently. He said Mister Bush is now sure to be, in his words, "the
first president since the Great Depression to face re-election without creating
a single job." Both could be right, depending on which measure they use.
The Department of Labor measures employment in two ways. One is known as the
household survey. Sixty thousand households are asked if anyone age sixteen
and over had worked during the past week. Even those who worked without pay
in a family business or farm are considered employed.
The other measure is taken from information from one hundred sixty thousand
employers. This is known as the establishment survey. It does not include farm
workers or the self-employed.
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