308,000 Jobs Created in March (UE Rate Up at 5.7%)

CNBC | April 2, 2004

[RWR8189]

308,000 jobs were created in March.

The unemployment rate held steady 5.7%

HUGE

[Poohbah]

TDIDS

[republicanwizard]

It's A BUSH ECONOMY! GO BUSH!

[RWR8189]

Other months this year revised upward too.

518,000 jobs created in 2004!!

[William McKinley]

Yahoo set expectations this way:

The nonfarm payrolls consensus estimate is set at +123K - although whisper numbers have been as high as 200K and the bears have been equally as active in pointing out that the last 4 nonfarm numbers have missed the consensus estimate...

[republicanwizard]

Someone get the Daschle picture up please.

[jackbill]

Goodbye, John F'n Kerry!

[JohnHuang2]

This is not a banner morning for the Dems ;-)

[William McKinley]

I think someone just had the rug pulled out from under them.

[2banana]

Democrats: DAMN! Well, we can always hope that a few more servicemen get killed and get dragged through the streets...

[Conservativegreatgrandma]

We're gonna see RATS jumping out of windows.

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[RWR8189]

Dow futures are SOARING

up 103 points!

Big rally today.

[BCrago66]

OK - somebody quick post a pic of Senator Daschle "deeply saddened." : )

[crushkerry]

From an AP article this morning, before this news hit: Economists expect to see between 103,000 and 120,000 new jobs created in March, up from 21,000 in February. The unemployment rate is expected to hold steady at 5.6 percent. I'd say this is good news for the country, and of course, bad news for John Kerry.

[Fury]

Noooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[looscnnn]

My question is how many are truely unemployed? Unemployment rates don't include students or unemployed people that have given up searching for a job.

[anniegetyourgun]

Yeehaw! Will probably be revised upward to reflect more data later.

[The G Man]

Good Lord!

[JohnHuang2]

I'll do the honors...

[RWR8189]

[The G Man]

JH ... accomodating as always. :>)

[woofer]

This is not a banner morning for the Dems

It won't be reported this way, but the steady ramping up of the 'new jobs created' numbers over the past six months are gonna make John Effin Kerry's claim of 10 million new jobs in "his" adminstration look either laughable or like a scheme to hold the American Economy back.

[rhombus]

Democrats: DAMN! Well, we can always hope that a few more servicemen get killed and get dragged through the streets...

That's the saddest thing about this election, that they have to hope for tragedy so they can blame Bush. Where are their priorities?

[Mo1]

This is not a banner morning for the Dems ;-)

Ahhhhhhhhhhhh ... the poor Dems

[ReleaseTheHounds]

Looking forward to John Kerry's reaction... "Goodbye Democrats 2004!"

[JohnHuang2]

lol -- so true!

[JohnHuang2]

heh, heh :-)

[Petronski]

Expected job growth: 120,000
Actual job growth: 308,000

Huge, baby.

TDIDS

[samtheman]

I'm not surprised by this. I expect it to continue.

[MrB]

Wrong pic. We need the "younger" pic of the baby crying on the Democrat seal.

[JohnHuang2]

308,000 MORE potential Free Republic donors! heh ;-)

[JohnHuang2]

lol

[xzins]

Apoplectic Democrat Alert!

All local EMS/EMT departments on standby.....

[epluribus_2]

5.7 is higher than 5.6. The Rats will dance over this and ignore the rest. And guess what will be reported?

[PeteFromMontana]

WOOHOO!! I am one of the 308,000! There are employment ads all over the place.

[JohnHuang2]

Buckle your seatbelts -- this is only the beginning...

[Petronski]

Unemployment rates don't include students or unemployed people that have given up searching for a job.

Nor do they include those who leave the 'employee' workforce to become self-employed, by starting their own enterprise.

[prairiebreeze]

I'm hearing that a settled grocery strike in CA accounts for about 72,000 of these jobs. But even factoring that out, it leaves a very good number.

The RATS are eating their hearts out and tearing at their fur.

Prairie

[Bubba_Leroy]

[icwhatudo]

UNEMPLOYMENT RATE HAS INCREASED!!!

Dem mantra today

[jackbill]

5.7 is higher than 5.6. The Rats will dance over this and ignore the rest. And guess what will be reported?

That's because all of those people "who had given up looking for a job" are now again looking.

[No Dems 2004]

Well, it's about time the President got some good news! I sure hope this is true.

Let's hope the news gets trumpeted!

[jwalsh07]

5.7 is higher than 5.6. The Rats will dance over this and ignore the rest. And guess what will be reported?

They can't, they're stuck with job numbers. LOL,LOL,LOL,LOL,LOL.

[TXBSAFH]

This is blasted good news!!!!!!!!!!!!

[johnb838]

Yes, but watch for this spin: The unemployment rate ticket up by .1 -- the democrats have never focused on job creation, unemployment is what is important. And why did it take so long to create jobs? You can't take away the fact that people were out of work for a long time and will never recover.

[epluribus_2]

Yeah, you'll hear Dan Rather say that later tonight...

[The G Man]

I'm hearing that a settled grocery strike in CA accounts for about 72,000 of these jobs

Striking workers count as unemployed??? You've got to be kidding me!

[BCrago66]

Here's the CBS MarketWatch report:

Payrolls finally explode
308,000 new jobs created in March, jobless rate 5.7%

http://cbs.marketwatch.com/news/story.asp?guid=%7BE5988F25%2D4D60%2D41AC%2DB2A4%2D987F92E8E5EA%7D&siteid=mktw

How can the Dems spin a number like 308,000?

[Mo1]

The RATS are eating their hearts out and tearing at their fur.

Fine by me