more bad news for GOP: Unemployment rate drops to two year low, 216,000 jobs added

[JohnWxy]

This makes it all the more important to the GOP to shut-down the Government !!


http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/unemployment-rate-falls-to-2-year-low-of-88-pct-employers-add-216k-jobs-in-march/2011/04/01/AF44d9FC_story.html?wpisrc=nl_natlalert

WASHINGTON — The unemployment rate fell to a two-year low of 8.8 percent in March, capping the strongest two months of hiring since before the recession began.

The economy added 216,000 jobs last month, the Labor Department said Friday. Factories, retailers, the education and health care sectors and professional and financial services all expanded payrolls. Those job gains offset layoffs by local governments.

Another month of brisk hiring provided the latest sign that the economy is strengthening nearly two years after the recession ended. Still, a surprisingly large number of people who stopped looking for work during the downturn have yet to start looking again.

Private employers, the backbone of the economy, are driving the gains. They added more than 200,000 jobs for a second straight month. It was the first time that’s happened since 2006 — more than a year before the recession started.
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[yellowcanine]

1. I'll bet that started Rush Limbaugh's anal cyst itching again.

[golfguru]

2. Gallup

http://www.gallup.com/poll/146900/Gallup-Finds-Unemployment-Rate-March.aspx

[SDuderstadt]

3. The funniest thing I have heard regarding this is...

some idiot GOP member of Congress (I think it was Mike Pence, claiming the job growth resulted because the GOP CONVINCED THE Dens not to raise taxes.

I am not making this up.