What do you think the Unemployment rate will be in Oct 2004?

[CMT]

The jobless "recovery" continues with more jobs lost last month--over three million jobs lost under George Worthless Bush. The only way he can win in 2004 is if there is a profound turnaround in the economy and especially jobs.

Where do you think the Unemployment rate will be in October, 2004 the last time the statistics are released before the November 2 election?

I hope for the unemployed that there is a turnaround, but the problem is the policies of this administration and they will not fundamentally change.

[NewJerseyDem]

1. What is it now?

[DemocratSinceBirth]

5. 6.1%

It will be between 6.1% and 6.5% by 10/04

[Capn Sunshine]

2. One of the reasons they repeat "jobless recovery"

over and over is because
"Lingering recession" is just so....Bush 1.

[marshmellow]

3. Ken Lay to head up labor statistics office.

Could be a great number with the right person in charge.

[Liberalboy]

4. I hate to say it....

but I think we're going to get hit again, and this time the economy is going to tank....I hope I'm wrong

[HereSince1628]

6. well, there'll be 8 democratic candidates and a former resident added

to the ranks of the unemployed!

[ComerPerro]

7. It will be the same, but no one will care

Because the market will be doing well, thanks to tax cut after tax cut for the very wealthy. They will not have to pay taxes on their stock dividends, and they can buy up the market at dirt cheap and will be garunteed profits.
Will businesses hire people? Maybe, but not for anything near a pay rate that they deserve.

Who cares? We have a war to fight. Go America!!!!

[eleny]

8. I voted very low...

because many people's benefits will expire and they will fall off the rolls.

[karlschneider]

9. To the person who ain't got one, it's 100%

:grr:

[liberalhistorian]

10. That's for sure! I will NEVER EVER

forget what it was like to suddenly lose my job and not be able to find another one for almost a year afterwards. My child support stopped at that time as well, I had NOTHING NOTHING NOTHING! Thank God for my parents, my family, and my church (one of whose members, a lawyer, finally had a job opening and offered it to me), or I would probably have killed myself! I wouldn't wish that on anyone, except for Shrubbie, of course, and he will never, ever know what such an experience is like.

[mhr]

11. You Were Lucky

I've been unemployed for more than three years now.

Have not heard one peep from any job inquiry for over a year, more like 18 months.

[dfong63]

12. the very term is infuriating

"jobless recovery". Bush should be on TV every day, on his knees begging forgiveness from the American worker for having destroyed millions of American jobs. instead he has the nerve to talk about this oxymoronic "jobless recovery". every other president since Hoover, no matter how bad the times were, has presided over the creation of at least some jobs. but this loser, Bush, has failed spectacularly. fancy words, promises, and excuses don't put food on the table.

Bush, not Saddam, is the real threat to America. Saddam didn't destroy millions of American jobs. Bush's policies are weapons of mass job destruction. the real need for regime change is right here in the USA.

[damnraddem]

13. Zero percent -- according to the GOP campaign materials.

;-)

But I clicked on the 6-6.9% category to represent what I think the figures will be.

Of course, the official figures understate unemployment, especially in today's labor market where so many have become discouraged and stopped looking for a job.