But the press corps are not fully doing their job when they just report the seasonally adjusted figure and not the other.
This figure is adjusted for inflation each year, but is otherwise unchanged.
Roth 401(k)s, on the other hand, are funded with after-tax dollars, so there is no reduction in adjusted gross income -- an important figure in determining tax brackets and the deductions and credits individuals can take.
The adjusted total in June is always a lot lower than the unadjusted figure, to smooth out all those people taking summer jobs, but this year the the statisticians have adjusted away 1, 084, 000 jobs in the private sector, compared with 'only' 920, 000 in June 2010.
Claims for unemployment insurance dropped to a seasonally adjusted 509, 000, from an upwardly revised figure of 530, 000 for the previous week, well below analysts' estimates of 537, 000, according to a survey by Thomson.
The figure fell 10%, to a seasonally adjusted 593, 000 units, the Commerce Department said.
The GAO also questioned whether there was enough data to figure out how much the bundled payment should be adjusted to include these oral medicines.
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When we adjusted for the pokey rate of oceanic warming being observed, that figure dropped by half.
The Labor Department said that jobless claims dropped by 20, 000 to a seasonally adjusted 368, 000 for the week ending February 26, from a revised figure the week before.
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When RadioShack reports on Tuesday, it's unlikely that its earnings-per-share figure will beat the 59 cents per share the company earned in 2005 before it adjusted for the write-down.
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