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To: Perdogg

Unemployment during the Clinton years was ~5.4% and that was touted as boom times.


9 posted on 03/07/2008 7:00:11 AM PST by kidd
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To: kidd

Bump


14 posted on 03/07/2008 7:24:20 AM PST by BenLurkin
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To: kidd

In all fairness, it was considered boom times because the unemployment rate fell steadily from a high of 7.8% in June 1992 to a low of 3.8% in April 2000.

The rate also fell from a high of 6.3% in June 2003, early in the Bush administration, to a low of 4.4% a recently as March 2007, also a strong time.

The problem now has been the trend. 4.8% isn’t a problem, the concern is that the trend for employment has been negative.


17 posted on 03/07/2008 7:29:37 AM PST by billthecat (Ack! Ack!)
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