Ho hum. Another month, another round of good news on the economic front...
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11759966/
"Hiring gained ground in February with employers adding 243,000 jobs, the most in three months. Brighter job prospects sent people streaming into the labor force, however, pushing the unemployment rate up marginally to 4.8 percent.
The employment report issued Friday by the Labor Department showed that job gains were fairly broad based. Construction companies, retailers, financial services all other industries posted payroll increases. That blunted job losses in manufacturing.
The unemployment rate inched up to 4.8 percent from a 4 1/2 year low of 4.7 percent in January. The bump-up in the jobless rate came as people — feeling better about job prospects — applied for work in droves. The performance in payrolls in February exceeded analysts’ expectations."
Hmm, wonder what cold water the Democrats are going to splash on this news, especially since the job growth was broad based in almost all industries, so there goes the "McJobs" excuse. Also, one of the things we've heard is that the economy is so bad there are millions of people who stopped looking for work, thus making the numbers misleading. Well, it seems many of those people came back to look for work, and the unemployment rate rose a whopping .1%.
But surely Democrats will come up with something poor-mouthing these numbers.
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