Excerpted: April 2nd, `10
"The nation's unemployment rate is still at 9.7 percent.
"Cutting it both ways on the economy works for the administration because if the report is better than expected, the president benefits. And if the report is disappointing, they haven't raised many hopes.
"Republican leaders, however, were energetically issuing "pre-buttals" of the jobs report, noting that the Census Bureau is staffing up for the 2010 count, adding more than 600,000 temporary slots that are counted in the Labor Department statistics, but don't boost the economy in the long term.
"In addition, a new report by ADP Employer Services on the private sector jobs market showed a drop of 23,000 jobs in March.
"If President Obama were serious about job creation, he would be spending less time on the campaign stump trying to sell Americans on a health care bill ... and more time focusing on putting our nation back to work," said Katie Wright, spokeswoman for the Republican National Committee."
Much more:
Read more at the Washington Examiner: Jobs numbers pose political opportunity, peril for Obama | Washington Examiner
"The nation's unemployment rate is still at 9.7 percent.
"Cutting it both ways on the economy works for the administration because if the report is better than expected, the president benefits. And if the report is disappointing, they haven't raised many hopes.
"Republican leaders, however, were energetically issuing "pre-buttals" of the jobs report, noting that the Census Bureau is staffing up for the 2010 count, adding more than 600,000 temporary slots that are counted in the Labor Department statistics, but don't boost the economy in the long term.
"In addition, a new report by ADP Employer Services on the private sector jobs market showed a drop of 23,000 jobs in March.
"If President Obama were serious about job creation, he would be spending less time on the campaign stump trying to sell Americans on a health care bill ... and more time focusing on putting our nation back to work," said Katie Wright, spokeswoman for the Republican National Committee."
Much more:
Read more at the Washington Examiner: Jobs numbers pose political opportunity, peril for Obama | Washington Examiner
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