Swing and a miss. A big miss. A really big miss. U.S. employers added just 120,000 jobs last month, the Labor Department said on Friday. That’s the smallest increase since October. Economists polled by Reuters had expected nonfarm employment to increase by 203,000. And as economist Robert Brusca points out, “The strong amazing run in household jobs came to a crashing halt as employment in that survey fell by 31,000 after rising by 42,000 last month and 847,000 the month before that.”
Saturday, April 7, 2012
Unemployment falls to 8.2%
That’s the headline that the White House and the lapdog press are pushing. Things, however, are not really as good as all that.
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Vodkapundit has a somewhat different take on the matter, but comes to the same conclusion: the economy sucks.
ReplyDeleteI'd say "Thanks!" for the other link, but passing on bad news is a duty, not a pleasure.