The numbers weren't seasonally adjusted, according to the article, while "Figures for California fast-food restaurants from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis show that on a <i>seasonally adjusted</i> basis, employment actually <i>rose</i> in the September-to-January period by 6,335 jobs, from 736,160 to 742,495."<p><i>"The author of the Wall Street Journal article, Heather Haddon, didn’t reply to my inquiry about why she appeared to use non-seasonally adjusted figures when the adjusted figures were more appropriate."</i><p>Now in this new article, a UCLA economics professor who'd originally pushed the "job loss" claims even "acknowledged by email that 'if the data are not seasonally adjusted, then no conclusions can be drawn...'"