Job growth largest in 4 years? Unemployment up?

[keithyboy]

And we are supposed to be happy? Please make me a believer.

[ringmastery]

1. the unemployment rate going up is actually good news for the economy

The rate has been artificially low for months because millions of discouraged workers have stopped looking for a job so they aren't counted in the figures.

They are now feeling better about the economy and looking for work again, thus the unemployment rate will go up higher.

[DemNoir]

6. A question

Is there any bit of Republican spin you dont buy into?

[tom_paine]

7. Fair Und Balanced

Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them

Before you know it, another Hate Mail will be in the old DU Hatemail Bag.

[redqueen]

8. Um,

are you just pulling all this out of your a$$ or do you have some source to back your statement that discouraged job hunters are re-entering the market?

:wtf:

[caledesi]

2. Oh really?

My husband lost his Citigroup job over a 1 1/2 ago and it too him 9 months to find a Temp job which he is still working. Yeah, we are taking a grand total of $8.50/hour. We are in Florida...you know the story...low wages and he is a college graduate. Go figure.

After one year at this job, he SHOULD be taking on permanently. Hello health insurance!

There is no way I can make you a believer. Sorry. Things are rough (gee, kinda makes me think of Bush I, when there was a lay-off and I had to "pound the pavement" just to get a Temp job which took awhile.
(Yeah, college grad too...)

[Ganja Ninja]

3. I don't trust anything these desperate crooks say any more.

You can't believe the numbers they put out. And they always have to cite some sort of statistic like "Job growth the largest it's been in four years" to try and distort the perception of what's really going on. Such as most of the jobs are part time and it's the most in four years because we have more people out of work now than we've had in the last four years.

[Lefty_the_Right]

4. The whole story is BS

Stalin is raising a glass of vodka in salute to Goebbels for his masterful tuteledge of Karl Rove.

Read the story on msnbc http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4652107 with an eye for Orwellian doublespeak.

"In March, there were 8.35 million people unemployed, compared with 8.17 million the previous month. The average duration of unemployment has been more than 20 weeks, a 20-year high."

"The March rise in payrolls reflected the resolution of a labor dispute at grocery stores in southern California that had idled 72,000 workers. The department said the return of those workers helped fuel a 47,000 increase in retail employment last month, but it did not quantify the impact."

"Jobless workers are increasingly accepting part-time work. The number of people who worked part time for economic reasons rose to 4.7 million in March, up from 4.4 million the previous month."

Hmmm, 4.7 minus 4.4 million, is 300,000.
Coincidence?

How can any of this be spun as "positive" news?

[tom_paine]

9. "Stalin is raising a glass of vodka in salute to Goebbels for his masterfl

tuteledge (sic) of Karl Rove."

My Gosh you said a mouthful.

I only hope Uncle Karl gets the room next to his Mentors in Hell.

[redqueen]

5. Yes, that's how bad things are

Even with the largest job growth (pre-correction, mind you) in four years, unemployment is STILL up.