{"id":2420,"date":"2010-09-01T12:58:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-01T17:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2010\/09\/job-progress\/"},"modified":"2010-09-01T12:51:03","modified_gmt":"2010-09-01T17:51:03","slug":"job-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2010\/09\/job-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"Job Progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m beginning to think we are becoming immune to employment reporting.\u00a0 A sentence from the beginning and end of a <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2010\/09\/01\/news\/economy\/job_cuts_challenger\/index.htm?section=money_news_economy&amp;utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fmoney_news_economy+%28Economy+News%29\" target=\"_blank\">CNNMoney.com article<\/a> (emphasis mine):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The <strong>good news<\/strong>: Overall employers announced fewer planned job cuts.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Economists are expecting the report to show there were 120,000 jobs lost in August, <strong>an improvement<\/strong> over July&#8217;s 131,000 job loss.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In a prolonged recession, I guess these pieces of information are uplifting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m beginning to think we are becoming immune to employment reporting.\u00a0 A sentence from the beginning and end of a CNNMoney.com article (emphasis mine): The good news: Overall employers announced fewer planned job cuts. \u2026 Economists are expecting the report to show there were 120,000 jobs lost in August, an improvement over July&#8217;s 131,000 job loss. 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