Employers Shed Jobs, Though Unemployment Rate Dips Slightly in June

Yeah ,unemployment is going down,if I tap the ruby slipper three times and say "I wish I was in Kansas, Dorothy,"

We just pay too much attention to these statistics. If no one worried about things, then everything would be alot better. Obama is doing the best he can and has an entire government to take care of us and to worry about making things better.

Mr. Sessions,

Now that is reporting. Give us the facts so we, THE CONSTITUENTS, can properly decide whether our representatives are doing what they promised to do. No more biased "reporting."

Pulsfire, you got it right as long as I was paid not to work then I did not work at A real job. I had a garden, some frute trees, helped neighbors, cut grass, worked under the table as I have the ability to fix things. I was very busy and doing just fine until the Govt. stoped paying me not to work. As I said I had to drive further than before and take A job not in my field but I found a job

As you read over this administrations fuzzy math figures on how we continue to lose more jobs , yet miraculously the unemployment rate goes down a hair , keep in mind that the lowest actual unemployment rate in the country is in Washington DC.

Unemployment statistics are the largest economic fraud ever perpetrated, and that's including Bernie Madoff. First, they're based on people actively searching for jobs and collecting unemployment compensation. When unemployment compensation runs out for someone, they're no longer counted as one of the unemployed. They become "non-persons" as far as the Department of Labor is concerned. Unemployment statistics don't count the people perennially on welfare. You can't be unemployed if you never were employed. Employment statistics are another mater. BO was so happy when employment went up by several hundred thousand because of the addition of temporary census workers. When those workers were finished (laid off, fired, whatever) they did NOT join the ranks of the unemployed. They didn't work long enough to get unemployment insurance. So, technically speaking, BO increased employment by those several hundred thousand jobs and, when everything was over, didn't increase UNemployment. Just a thought.

President Obama is doing an excellent job. He is calmly and methodically trying to correct all of the problems he inherited. People need to be patient. It doesn't help That FOX NEWS and many on talk radio constantly distort the news and are hoping that he fails.

AS much as i would like to see this economy turn around iam afraid it will get much worse before it gets better. Low paying and part time jobs wont feed a revival in the job market. Cutting taxes at this time is the worst thing we can do if we dont cut spending to the bone .That means we eliminate medicare or social security or both.I bet their be a envasion of washington by seniors and their children long before that happens.Leaving only military complex and the two wars to cut. Cant see the republicans letting that happen.My solution would be to raise taxes significantly on the top 5 percent[wont change their life style] Put a tax on all goods[not raw material] entering usa put a penaty tax on all corporations whos product is manufactured overseas[ as there manufacturing their product overseas contributes to our unemployment.raise the roalty tax on oil Declair victory in iraq and leave[no alquida no saddam]Same with Afganistan[ no bin laden no significant noumber of alquida]Create and put in place a plan to have high speed rail between all major cities.

Add all those on welfare and those that will be applying for welfare and you are looking at better than 25% unemployment.
Mark my word this is the first stage of DEPRESSION thanks to Obama and no Job Stimulus plan.
He will spend,spend and spend more.
The war fund is nothing but a fund to give out more money to stupid programs such as 3 billion to Haiti,etc...
Obama is Not a Leader!!!

No mention of the 650,000 people who have been unemployed so long they have dropped off the Governments stats??? With the long term unemployed who have given up looking for a job the TRUE unemployment rate is near 17%.
Obama told us if we passed the stimulus unemployment would drop and not exceed 8%. Obama sold us the stimulus by saying if we did NOTHING unemployment would hit and hold above 9%. Turns out we have had unemployment way above 9% but Obama is playing fast and loose with the numbers to hold the "offical" unemployment rate under double digits.....how long was it 9.9%????

What exactly did we get for nearly ONE TRILLION DOLLARS in stimulus and jobs bill if Obama, just a year ago, told us if we did NOTHING unemployment would hold above 9%??????????
We got a few paved roads (4% of spending) What Obama got was hundreds of billions for a political slush fund to hand out to Democrat voting unions.