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Originally Posted by Sweet Pip
and so then the change number represent a change in dollar value from the last time it was totaled? ...Is that on the right track?

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yea, something like that, expect I think the number reps the number of employees in the states instead of the numbers
investopedia.com/terms/n/nonfarmpayroll.asp
in the recent years the number has always been negative due to the recession. At first i thought the number was all supposed to be negative which was the reason that didn't make any sense to me. then i realized that its because we are in another depression