{"id":2746,"date":"2011-06-03T17:56:19","date_gmt":"2011-06-03T21:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/watchwomanonthewall\/?p=2746"},"modified":"2011-06-03T17:56:19","modified_gmt":"2011-06-03T21:56:19","slug":"half-of-last-months-new-jobs-came-from-a-single-employer-%e2%80%94-mcdonalds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/watchwomanonthewall\/2011\/06\/half-of-last-months-new-jobs-came-from-a-single-employer-%e2%80%94-mcdonalds.html","title":{"rendered":"Half of Last Month&#8217;s New Jobs Came from a Single Employer \u2014 McDonald&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: x-large\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/photos1.fotosearch.com\/bthumb\/FSB\/FSB053\/x10259840.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"154\" height=\"170\" \/><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small\">BY <\/span><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.weeklystandard.com\/author\/mark-hemingway\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;font-size: x-small\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;font-size: x-small\">MARK HEMINGWAY<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size: x-small\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.weeklystandard.com\/rss\/mark%20hemingway\/rss.xml\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.weeklystandard.com\/rss\/mark%20hemingway\/rss.xml\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small\">According to the unemployment data released this morning, the <\/span><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/economy\/employers-add-fewest-jobs-in-8-months-unemployment-jumps-to-91percent\/2011\/06\/03\/AGxhOvHH_story.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;font-size: x-small\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;font-size: x-small\">economy added only 54,000 jobs<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size: x-small\">, pushing the\u00a0unemployment rate\u00a0up to 9.1 percent. However, <\/span><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.marketwatch.com\/thetell\/2011\/06\/03\/mcdonald%E2%80%99s-and-other-may-jobs-fun\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;font-size: x-small\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;font-size: x-small\">this report from MarketWatch<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size: x-small\"> suggests data is much worse than that:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small\">McDonald\u2019s\u00a0ran a big hiring day on April 19 \u2014 after the\u00a0Labor Department\u2019s\u00a0April survey for the payrolls report was conducted \u2014 in which 62,000 jobs were added. That\u2019s not a net number, of course, and\u00a0seasonal adjustment\u00a0will reduce the Hamburglar impact on payrolls. (In simpler terms \u2014 restaurants always staff up for the summer; the\u00a0Labor Department\u00a0makes allowance for this effect.)\u00a0Morgan Stanley\u00a0estimates McDonald\u2019s hiring will boost the overall number by 25,000 to 30,000. The Labor Department won\u2019t detail an exact McDonald\u2019s figure \u2014 they won\u2019t identify any company they survey \u2014 but there will be data in the report to give a rough estimate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>If\u00a0Morgan Stanley\u00a0is correct, about half of last month&#8217;s job growth came from the venerable fast-food chain. That is hardly the sign of a healthy economy.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;font-size: x-small\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;font-size: x-small\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.weeklystandard.com\/blogs\/half-last-months-jobs-came-single-employer-mcdonalds_573220.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.weeklystandard.com\/blogs\/half-last-months-jobs-came-single-employer-mcdonalds_573220.html<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY MARK HEMINGWAY &nbsp; According to the unemployment data released this morning, the economy added only 54,000 jobs, pushing the\u00a0unemployment rate\u00a0up to 9.1 percent. However, this report from MarketWatch suggests data is much worse than that: McDonald\u2019s\u00a0ran a big hiring day on April 19 \u2014 after the\u00a0Labor Department\u2019s\u00a0April survey for the payrolls report was conducted&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":403,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[223,1121,705,174,35],"tags":[1176],"class_list":["post-2746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-failed-policies","category-government-2","category-jobs","category-obama","tag-mcjobs"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Half of Last Month&#039;s New Jobs Came from a Single Employer \u2014 McDonald&#039;s  - Watchwoman on the Wall<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/watchwomanonthewall\/2011\/06\/half-of-last-months-new-jobs-came-from-a-single-employer-\u2014-mcdonalds.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Half of Last Month&#039;s New Jobs Came from a Single Employer \u2014 McDonald&#039;s  - Watchwoman on the Wall\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"BY MARK HEMINGWAY &nbsp; According to the unemployment data released this morning, the economy added only 54,000 jobs, pushing the\u00a0unemployment rate\u00a0up to 9.1 percent. 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