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

Don't Worry...

[cyranoVR]

...all those unemployed folks are making up for it by selling beanie babies on eBay! Problem solved.

/hey, Cheney said it, not me

Re:Before all you people start bashing Bush

[Anonymous Coward]

While you are correct in a round-about way, it takes an act of Congress to pass any type of tax legislature.

I've been boinkin' my wife pretty regularly since the '00 election, and I haven't seen much tax legislation as a result.

Perhaps I shoud try harder? Honey....