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To: Pikamax
Here's the Reuters take on the same story. Note the doom and gloom hinted at.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. economy created just 112,000 new jobs in January, far fewer than expected, government data showed on Friday, in a disappointing report that will weigh on President Bush's re-election campaign. The fifth straight monthly gain in non-farm payrolls followed a revised increase of 16,000 new jobs in December, the Labor Department said. The unemployment rate ticked down to 5.6 percent, the lowest since January 2002, from 5.7 percent the previous month - but those numbers are taken from a separate, smaller, survey.

Analysts had been expecting the improving economy to create 150,000 new jobs in January

18 posted on 02/06/2004 5:41:25 AM PST by ladtx ( "Remember your regiment and follow your officers." Captain Charles May, 2d Dragoons, 9 May 1846)
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To: ladtx
Note the doom and gloom hinted at

At the rate we're going, the jobless rate will be 4.9% by November -- then we'll really be DOOMED! ;-)

21 posted on 02/06/2004 5:43:55 AM PST by JohnHuang2
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To: ladtx; OXENinFLA
Here's the Reuters take on the same story. Note the doom and gloom hinted at.

The U.S. economy created just 112,000 new jobs in January, far fewer than expected, government data showed on Friday, in a disappointing report that will weigh on President Bush's re-election campaign.

Wow are you right! Four negatives in just the first sentence!

48 posted on 02/06/2004 6:22:56 AM PST by StriperSniper (Manuel Miranda - Whistleblower)
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To: ladtx
The complete lack of journalistic integrity in that article is astonishing.
83 posted on 02/06/2004 10:47:07 AM PST by Republican Wildcat
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