“Picking Up Speed”

David Leonhardt writes at the New York Times, “Job growth is picking up speed, reaching 216,000 in March.”

This is technically correct. The economy created 216,000 jobs in March compared with 194,000 in February. In other words, the economy created 11.3% more jobs in March than in February.

However Leonhardt neglects to mention that March has 10.7% more days than February does.

Posted by on April 1st, 2011 at 11:23 am


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