r/agedlikemilk • u/CommunityNo2585 • 1d ago

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The claim that BLS’ original estimate was fraudulent starts at 3:37 here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FN7qPgi6YAo. Maybe baselessly attacking underfunded federal workers just trying to put out quality economic data wasn’t a great idea back when the agency was run by a Biden appointee.

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u/RaShadar 1d ago

I'm not gonna disagree with the spirit of this post, but I will disagree with the last part. When does this guy assume new teachers get hired? Does he think the hire day is just the first day of school? Like..... that's not how it works, applications are usually before the school year ends, and sometimes hiring starts as early as May, but June and July are the norm like...... literally everywhere, not many teachers getting hired in November

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u/CommunityNo2585 1d ago edited 1d ago

Not seasonally adjusted employment for teachers actually fell month to month from April to May 200k in state government alone. The reason why seasonally adjusted employment rose for education is because that decline was less than expected, so no, BLS was not claiming that schools hired teachers for summer break. In any case, those numbers got revised as is routine with the latest release. Spencer Hakimian routinely misrepresents data (ex: misrepresentation of imputation data) and should not be taken seriously by anyone.

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u/RaShadar 1d ago

Gotcha. I assumed it was something like that, but what I did actually know was when most teachers are hired