01.06.17

Happy days here again. If you can’t count…

Posted in Culture of Lickspittle at 3:14 pm by George Smith

Your average NYTimes reporter lacks ability in arithmetic. Or is interested in distortion. Maybe it’s both. Still they earn six figures a year. It’s a good place to be.

So what’s wrong with this sentence from the NYT today?

“Leisure and hospitality workers, for example, saw hourly earnings jump 4.4 percent from a year earlier, equal to the increase enjoyed by employees in the hot technology sector.”

According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics the average leisure/hospitality worker earns 15 dollars and change per hour for an average 26 hour work week.

Hot tech workers: $90,000 – 100, 000 /year. Oof!

Happy days, here again.

The reporter, Nelson D. Schwartz finds an expert to waffle it:

“Strong economic growth doesn’t really matter if it’s not widely distributed,??? Ms. Swonk said. “You can have a better economy but still not good enough for people who aren’t participating at all.???

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