Jobless Rate Lowest Since April 2009, but Still at 9 Percent

These numbers are coming from a, "government survey". They wouldn't try to put a positive, self serving spin on it or manipulate the numbers would they? Many are too gullible...

jjohnblack.....try not being partisan just once. Do the math.....36,000 jobs created can't drop unemployment by that much.

Let's put this into perspective. To bring the unemployment rate down to 8% the economy will have to produce 250,000 jobs a month for the next two years. 36,000 jobs is a monumental achievement? It is the fewest number of jobs produced in 4 months. Also, considering jobs lost,there is no positive net gain. Nice try...

These numbers do not add up. There are millions fewer jobs and millions of young graduates of three classes chasing the 36,000 jobs a month being added now. Find the discrepancy; as a reporter you owe us the whole story.

Didn't anyone in the Tea Party take even a basic course in Macro Economics? Maybe Bush was right: we need more college education and perhaps it is nowhere more obvious than among the conservative wing of the country.

Most observant people would tell you that the November elections trimmed Obama's money tree and took away his ability to raise taxes. That caused an immediate uptick in the economy.

All the money spent on Banks, stimulous, Tarp and divide that by the number of jobs created - it is a total joke. We now are trillions in debt and have nothing to show for it. Obama is a liberal on steroids and we are in Afganistan and for what? People, this used to be the richest country int the world, not any more.

Lets go back 10 years to when Bush started his presidency right after Clinton had a surplus for 3 years ina row. Bush claimed if we lowered taxes for the rich it would help the economy. Then he started a war in Afghanistan and Iraq because everybody knows america prospers during war time right? Then after 8 years of this just before Obama was to start his presidency Bush stood there and proudly proclaimed "The fundamentals of the economy are sound" A week before it blew up in his face and he came out and said the country was going broke.. McCain saying he knew absolutely nothing about economics mimicked Bush. Both came off as fools. Now you have Mitch McConnell and John Boehner saying the same things as Bush and McCain and people (Republicans) are buying it). Unemployment which went from 4.2 percent to when Bush started and then went over 10% within a year after he left us this mess. The people who know what is going on are not buying that the unemployment that kept on going up after Bush left is any of Obama's doing. but the disinformation just keeps flowing and it's not helping a damn thing.

Much like the way gov't prices inflation, the way they count the Jobless rate is hoax. The real jobless rate maybe nearer to 17-20%.

no government, no president, of either party can do anything to create real private sector jobs. they can only do things to discourage job growth. cutting payroll taxes, for instance, is the govt getting out of the way, not actually running a jobs program that cost money and doesnt create jobs. it puts money directly into the pocket of the guy who earned it, so he can use it to best fulfill his needs. instead of spending 1 trillion on a stimulus plan that directed money we didnt have to the places govt thought best to spend it, why didnt they give 1trillion in tax breaks to the american people, put the money directly in the peoples hand and let them get the economy going. it's not rocket science to figure out simple means better.