After having expectations significantly lowered by a week of depressing numbers, the monthly jobs report came in on Friday as a pleasant surprise. Here's all the good news, and why the sequester hasn't brought the economy to a stop. Indeed, the markets are loving this news.
The good news is that unemployment rate actually went down to 7.6 percent, lower than it's been at any point since Obama took office. Based on what we're seeing from economics watchers across the spectrum, here are the big reactions — simplified.
The unemployment rate dropped from 7.7 to 7.6 percent in March, according to data released this morning by the Bureau of Labor Statistics — but that was the good news.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics announced this morning that the unemployment rate for January rose slightly, but revisions to previous months showed a huge surge in hiring.
Today's jobs report is the best news President Obama has received in months. So naturally conservatives assume the whole thing is a giant conspiracy.
The unemployment rate plunged to 7.8 percent in September, its lowest level since Barack Obama took office in 2009.
The monthly jobs report fell far short of expectations, but President Obama gets some sliver of good news as the unemployment rate falls to the lowest number of his administration.
We've got the numbers, but now comes the next part of the jobs day specatacle — the spin from both sides of the debate.
The U.S. economy added 80,000 jobs in October and unemployment fell, barely, to 9 percent, according to the Labor Department's monthly jobs report.
The Labor Department's September jobs report is slightly better than expected
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