Observations-Engagements

Although I didn’t realize it at the time I wrote it, my take on today’s employment reports, which showed both a decrease in the unemployment rate and a loss of jobs, may be among the most pessimistic. When our Canright Calendar email comes out on Monday, today’s report will be referred to as a “job-loss report,” in contrast to most-often used tag of “jobless report.”

Read why Larry Summers, director of the National Economic Council, gets my business language prize in “Jobless: Links on the Language of Employment Statistics,” in the Canright Communications Writer’s Blog.

Tags: economy, Journalism, Larry Summers, Media