The Texas Job Recession Is Now Literally “Off The Chart”

Thursday, May 7, 2015
By Paul Martin

by Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com
05/07/2015

The paradoxical, utterly nonsensical “data” releases continue.

On one hand, the government’s Department of Labor reported earlier today that in the past week just 265K people were laid off: the lowest number since early 2000. On the other, private data aggregator Challenger reported that in April, there were a whopping 61,582 job cuts, a 68% surge from March, and up 53% from a year ago. This was the highest monthly total since May 2012 and the highest April total since 2009!

Smoothing out the noise reveals that in the first 4 months of 2015, employers announced 201,796 planned job cuts, which marks a 25 percent increase from the 161,639 layoffs tracked in the first four months of 2014. This is the largest four-month total since 2010.

To say that something does not add up here between the public and private data releases is quite evident.

But while there may be massive confusion when it comes to the data propaganda and the clear agenda behind the seasonally-adjusted, policy-specific government data, there is no confusion when it comes to one thing: the job recession in Texas has not been this bad since the last of the second Great Depression.

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