Last Pre-Election Jobs Report Released

September's jobs report notes a gain of 96,000 jobs, and a downward revision for August from 144,000 to 128,000. The unemployment rate held steady at 5.4% (about even to Nixon's and Clinton's when they were reelected), while another 236,000 jobs were added in a periodic revision to the total, leaving Bush at a deficit of 585,000 jobs from where he started. If he averages 150,000 jobs for the last four months of his term, he will net positive job growth. The effects of the recent hurricanes were not possible to determine at this point, the report said. This will surely be featured prominently in tonight's second Presidential debate (starting at 9 p.m. Eastern).

Comments

Re:Before all you people start bashing Bush

[EnderWiggnz]

so, since your spouting crap, you've got the econ degree?

screw you buddy - this administration has had 4 years to fix whatever the problem was - and since they couldnt do that in 4 years, we should give them another chance?

no way.

Email about this passed around at work.

[cerebralsugar]

I sent this around in an email at work to my team to be funny.

From: Boss
To: Employees
Subj: Job growth data
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Hello! I wanted to forward around the following job growth data.

96,000 new jobs added the month of september.

NOW GET TO WORK AND STOP READING STUPID EMAILS OR YOU'LL BE LOOKING FOR ONE OF THEM!!

Signed,

Your Boss