Wake up, Washington, jobs landscape is deteriorating

[ProSense]

Wake up, Washington, jobs landscape is deteriorating

By Steve Benen

The first several months of 2011 showed steady and strong improvements to the nation’s employment picture, and there were reasons for optimism for the near future.

That optimism is now long gone. If May’s job numbers were a punch to the gut, June’s job numbers felt like getting kicked while already on the ground.

Expectations were that the job numbers would tick higher after an awful May, but the opposite happened — in June, the economy created even fewer jobs, totaling just 18,000 for the month. The unemployment rate also went up, reaching 9.2%.

All told, the private sector gained 57,000 jobs, while the public sector lost 39,000 jobs, due entirely to budget cuts at the state and local level.

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[Rosa Luxemburg]

1. The Right wants to cut government but that means huge job losses

In the end the ordinary people are suffering and yet the rich get richer!

[WhiteTara]

2. Greedy Old Pig Party is winning

They hate us all.

[woolldog]

3. Obama has totally bought into the GOP frame

of the debt/deficit being the main problem. He's strengthened that canard in fact.

Meanwhile no job creation....

[ProSense]

4. Ah

"Obama has totally bought into the GOP frame"

..."bullshit!