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but rather just the layoffs part of it.
This is entirely different than the BLS's report on 911,000 jobs downward revision in #4, which is the 12 months through March 2025. That is not the source of the Challenger Gray and Christmas layoffs report.
I searched on:
the job cut figures from challenger gray and christmas - are those net job losses, i.e. jobs created minus jobs lost?
and I haven't read anything different. And they are far different than ADP or BLS net jobs gained/lost (though the latest on the latter is only through August)
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As for inflation, both the CPI and the PCE include food and energy, and these are what is usually headlined by the media. When they don't, they always say "core inflation", at least that's my experience reading these things every month for years.
It's the CORE CPI and CORE PCE that don't include food and energy.
https://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.nr0.htm
The latest on PCE is: https://www.bea.gov/news/2025/personal-income-and-outlays-august-2025
PCE inflation for the latest 5 months are in the news release http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/national/pi/pinewsrelease.htm
Click on Full Release and Tables (PDF)
Go to Table 5.
When I report on the CPI and PCE in the LBN inflation threads(that BumRushDaShow usually starts), I always show both the CPI and Core CPI, e.g.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=3552722
Ditto the PCE.
I definitely agree that when assessing one's cost of living, and reported salaries and wages, one should be comparing to the regular inflation measures that include food and energy, for sure.
The core measures are what the Fed prefers as far as projecting FUTURE inflation, and back-testing studies back that up as a better predictor.
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