Unemployment Rate Falls to 9.4 Percent

damn obama..maybe his stupid economic theories are starting to work...damn him

homes are being sold..foreclosers are down...unemployment is down..fewer lay offs...cars are being sold..

obama why are you doing this to america..why are you saving us from economic chaos...damn him
why couldn't you just leave all the bush plans on the economy intact..it was doing such a good job..
now this obama guy is changing things for the better..who does he think he is?

damn obama..you shouldn't be doing such a good job

What kind of Chinese math system r u using,Dave?Unemployment rose .1% to 9.6%. How can u lose 300,000 jobs and the percentage go down?(duh)

Neil.. Wake up Brother.. Unemployment is 9.4 percent.. All these socialist programs have not even hit us yet.. (cap n trade- energy joke of bill etc....).. small business is just trying to hold on until folding,.. and the biggest is commercial real estate has not even begun its bursting yet...

Wake up Borther..and Mr. Knowles... You aint seen nothing yet...

P.S.. They have Economics 101 for dummies on line... Can I suggest you guys go visit it???

Dave Knowles did you fail math in school ?

jim..one question..where have you being for the last eight years ...bush entered office with a surplus and within 18 months that was gone..

jim..this is 2009 not 1980..new problems different solutions,,,,
small business..passing universal health care would be the best thing for small business..which means small business wouldn't have to pay for their employee total healthcare..which means they would have more money to hire more people

how do you like those apples ,jim

The media is incredibly dishonest! Are you sick of this crap? Where are the new jobs? How many people are there that did not qualify for unemployment? How many people had the benefit run out and cannot find a job? How stupid!

park457799..if they came out and said umemployment went up to 10%..would you still call the media dishonest and question they finding,,,..
its the same formula thats being used for the last six months...
maybe its you that need to be questions..sounds like you have issues

So the recessions over let Odumbo come out here in the job market then. Oh, he's never held a job, or paid a person or ran a dry cleaners. Soup Kitchens don't have to show a profit. If its over cancel the other 95% of the porkulus bill that hasn't been spent yet on his cronies and acorn. Shovel ready, Right! None of the projects will create permanent jobs like the private sector can. Meanwhile small business fail by the thousands, the job creating businesses. Odumbo's attack on entreprenuers continues. By the time he is done Government will account for 60% of the economy. America will be the new France. Get used to double digit employment, I have confident he'll get us there yet.

David Knowles needs to go back to banging his drums and sticking to writing fantasy. What a tool. Gives "real" journalists a bad rap.

When the GDP was not as bad as predicted, people called "bullsh!t"! Now the unemployment rate was not as bad as predicted and people still call "bullsh!t"! No one feels all the problems our union faces economically are over. All this says is that things COULD be improving. GDP and employment are tantamount to a strong economy.

SO UNTRUE WHAT ABOUT THE 2.9 % THAT ARE STILL OUT OF WORK WITH NO UNEMPLOYMENT EXTENTION,,WHITEHOUSE DOESN'T COUNT THEM,,,,,,

Are they still counting the people who have now lost their unemployment benefits? I remember once reading they weren't even counting people who were on the extension end of their unemployment. Mine ends in one week. I want to have hope as I am a scared single mom, but I'm not really sure their numbers are acurate. It may just look good to them with all the people who are dropping off of unemployment now. I want to be optimistic, but I'm not feeling it. I'm not seeing anymore jobs in the paper. (or online!)

I have wondered and waited for all of the reporters and economic think tanks to put this out and no one has.. so.. Why are we not pulling together and going back to the BUY American? If the trickle down effect has put so many of us out of work and brought so many companies to thier knees cant the trickup effect also work ?
For months now if it does not say Made In USA I do not buy it, that includes canned fruit, yes you heard me right the canned fruit you buy in the grocery is Not from our farmers, not a Walmart bash but I don’t shop there much anymore because it is so hard to find USA products, I have learned if I cant find it USA made I don’t need it for the most part there are somethings that I have to have like car parts, I request USA and have to pick from China or Mexico and I drive an american made car ! I would like american made parts !
If we all stick to this for even 6 months It has to bring back supply and demand which means more Americans will return to work pay taxes and start to bring the huge spending under control, If we bring less into our country, then we will have to produce it, I fear for my kids, we can’t afford collage now, most of our 401 is gone and there aren’t any jobs.
There should be an internet site that american companies can sign up at with a product list and who sells thier products so we can easily find them and buy more American Goods