We need about 188,000 new jobs every month just to keep even. 162,000 jobs added is still losing ground and creating more unemployed/underemployed.
40,000 or so jobs are temporary jobs with the Census. They really should not be included in this number.
The Obama administration, like the Clinton Regime, has a dirty habit of hyping the intial jobs report numbers, then quietly revising them downward in later months. This 162,000 number is, most likely, inflated.
Only,7,838,000 jobs to go!
During the Bush administration, if jobs were added and there was economic growth during any given month, the liberals complained that it wasn’t enough, and that millions were still grappling with poverty.
With this president, the criteria have changed. Now the evaulation being made is that things would have been a lot worse than they are if not for Porkulus and the enlightened policies of this administration.
And don’t forget, Obama inherited the worst conditions ever inherited by one president from another president.
It’s obvious that the liberals are not using the same criteria to judge this president as they used to judge the previous president.
??? We've been losing close to half a million a WEEK. We need over 11 million new jobs just to get back to the "failing" Bush economy.
BTW, are we better off now than we were 4 years ago? (A rhetorical question, of course.)
I expect the usual with this number. The DoLS will come back and revise it downward with little fanfare.