US economy adds 120K jobs, jobless rate falls to 8.2 pct
April 6, 2012 at 4:37 am in West Central Tribune
WASHINGTON (AP) The job market slowed in March as companies hit the brakes on hiring amid uncertainty about the economy’s growth prospects. The unemployment rate dipped, but mostly because more Americans stopped looking for work.
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How many Americans can understand this Double-Talk,coming from President BHO’s people in Wash.D.C. ? Just re-election propaganda from the King-pins. If wondering, just look around, and see for yourself. (HE tells us , reason unemployment is lower, more and more unemployed have given up looking for work!!!!.)
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Can’t wait until we get under that 8% number Obama promised us we wouldn’t go over 3 years ago. Think we will make it by the time the election comes around bac?
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In economics, a discouraged worker is a person of legal employment age who is not actively seeking employment or who does not find…This is not new – always been part of the equation.
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Nice comment Nora, I’m sure it makes all of those folks fell better they are “just part of a equation”. I’m sure that helps…
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All I’m saying – for all the right critics who think this improved number is bogus – its not any more bogus because we have a president you hate. It is what it is….and going in the right direction.
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It is Obama’s policies I hate Nora, not the man. I know it makes liberals feel better to pretend that conservatives hate Obama for other reasons. You really do need to get over that and admit the truth, Obama is a failure.
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We have had no help from the GOP. In 2010 the GOP promised to create jobs and now its 2012, where are they? Instead they attacked Pensions, SS, Medicare, and teachers and their unions. It cost money to fight wars and to fund the private war sector Republicans created, but they wanted to take our money. Its bad enough many of use will not be able to retire until we are 70 at the rate the Republicans are going. The GOP also created Homeland Security spending 40B a year on their budget. Republicans did not help with the jobs programs, and shot down some of the Presidents attempts to create more jobs simple because they needed this issue to run a successful Presidential Campaign on. Just this week the GOP finally signed a jobs bill the president presented and we all know why that was. Now that the job picture is improving the Republicans are trying to create more diversity. This party has a habit of tearing apart things, not rebuilding or working to improve the problems they created in 2007, and 2008! Instead of hitting SS, and medicare lets end the conflict in the ME and lets create the additonal jobs in order to rebuild the infrastructure before more bridges collapse! Also even other Republicans are concerned over the parties recent attacks on women which has actually cost the party voters and angered many women on all sides of the political spectrum. Like the saying goes we don’t change the coach at half-time!
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j.d. when Democrat Nancy P won the majority leadership of the U.S.House in 2006 along with the already owner of the Senate, Democrat Harry Reid they started spending, giving away our money, Our Country only owed 6 Trillion dollars, then in 08 when President BHO was added, all three went bozo, within another 2 years they added trillions to our National debt, which is now close to 17 trillion, about 3 times more than what GWB had on his back(6 Trillions). A great deal of that 17 trillion we now owe was spent by President BHO buying the 60 YES votes needed pass to HIS obamacare , What is shameful, or sad ,, is the fact HE had to give these trillions of our income tax dollars to HIS fellow Democrat Senators. Who in their right mind , would ever, ever think he had to BUY HIS own PEOPLE. NOT I. HE HIMself has said THE GREAT Recession came about then. As I remember, HE had HIS ear to ear Grin on while doing so.
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I can only assume from you cute little smiley faces that you approve of Obama’s spending us into bankruptcy bac.
Cute.
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Actually, the faces were to illustrate ‘carls’ version of the ‘ear to ear grin’.
If you’d been awake in the last ten years, ‘elton’, you’d know that it was GWB who spent us into oblivion with his unpaid for peronal war.
But, it is most likely that you just can’t beleive that, considering as how brainwashed you have been by the TPGOP.
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The “last ten years”? The last 3+ years has seen Obama double the national debt. If he is relected he will double it or even triple it again. Please try to keep up bac.
How has Obama been paying for his personal war in Afganistan? What are his objectives? What is the purpose of us continuing with his war? What interests of the United States are being protected? Why do we have soldiers at risk, what threat are we worried about from Afganistan that won’t still be there or reappear shortly after we leave?
The issue is much bigger then your little Bush bashing agenda bac. It is about time for Obama to man up and take reponsibility, he can no longer whine and cry that it is all President Bush’s fault. A real man would move forward and stop looking backwards.
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“Bushbashing”?
What’s the point now? Turns out your ‘savior’ Romney has been hiding a lot of things. Things that just howl for investigation.
Seems that he found a little loophole to avoid reporting all his off-shore activities, and the media have caught them, due to his releasing his tax statements. He’s holding at least a dozen off-shore business accounts that moved US jobs overseas, as well as a load of off-shore accounts of millions of dollars that he hasn’t been taxed on.
Yeah, a real TPGOP HERO!
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Yes bac, Bush bashing. You and others of your ilk continue to blame Bush for Obama’s problems 3+ years into his one term. As I said it is time for Obama to man up and take responsibility for his failures. As President the buck stops with Obama, not someone who hasn’t been in office for over 3 years.
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My “savior” is Jesus Christ.
We all know who yours is bac.
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LOL, nice joke. Nobody is so stupid as to believe that, right bac?
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Do not forget, that bacs messiah, President BHO also walks on Water(as HE is doing us). what makes it so, is HIS (president BHO’s) ear to ear GRIN.
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Wake up to reality folks. We have problems which need solving and I don’t see it forthcoming from Washington DC.
“For example, the most recent unemployment rate released on Friday with 8.2 percent unemployment, would be officially considered 9.6 percent, the so-called U-5 rate that was also released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS.)
The measure would not require any additional numbers to be calculated, it would simply use a statistic that the BLS already calculates each month, alongside the so-called official unemployment rate and a handful of other stats.
The U-5 stat measures, “total unemployed, plus discouraged workers, plus all other persons marginally attached to the labor force, as a percent of the civilian labor force plus all persons marginally attached to the labor force,” while the U-3 stat or the “official unemployment rate,” measures, “total unemployed, as a percent of the civilian labor force.” “
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