State reports a gain of 12,900 private-sector jobs in June - JSOnline

Wow! 12,900 jobs created for the month of June, but wait! The employment rate in the same month of June rose from 7.4% to 7.6%. Numbers can be deceiving depending on the motivations of the presenter, or writer in this case, but numbers do not lie.

Let us paint a clearer picture with the numbers missing from the article. The 7.6% figure represents a significant rise in the unemployed out of the total workforce in the State Wisconsin. Wisconsin workforce estimated at 3,071,886. A 7.6% unemployed rate equals 5,679 joined the ranks of the 227,000 plus unemployed in the State during the month of June (figures from http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/surveymost ).

Therefore, the headline should have read, New Employment Practically Tit for Tat” with New Ranks joining the Unemployed, in the State of Wisconsin during the month of June.

However, that headline does not paint such a rosy and deceptive picture does it?