Great News- Unemployment is Only 8.9%

[red states rule]

When unemployment was 5% under Pres Bush we were told by the liberal meia how rotten the economy was.

Now we have unemployment at 8.9% (it is really about 15% when you ad in all the part timers who want full time work and those who are no longer counted as unemployed) and wer are on the raod to recovery

Go figure

[Kathianne]

Pretty sure the real numbers are higher than 15%:

http://behavioraleconomy.gallup.com/2011/01/real-unemployment-in-us-above-19.html


Monday, January 10, 2011
Real Unemployment in U.S. Above 19%

Gallup's continuous measurement of the U.S. unemployment rate shows it at 9.7% for the 30-day average ending Jan. 8, 2011. This is only 0.6% below the rate registered on this same date a year ago and reflects how hard it is to make progress when trying to reduce the unemployment rate.

However, Gallup's underemployment -- real unemployment -- including those unemployed and those employed part-time but looking for full-time work, remains at 19.2% for the 30-days ending Jan. 8, 2011. This is down 0.4% from the same day in January 2010 and suggests nearly one in five Americans need a full-time job as 2011 begins -- just as they did a year ago.

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Gallup's job data for early January 2011 suggest jobs remain the top national priority of the new year.

[red states rule]

Pretty sure the real numbers are higher than 15%:

http://behavioraleconomy.gallup.com/2011/01/real-unemployment-in-us-above-19.html

I was not sure but given how this adminstration has fudged the umbers Kat I did not want to give them to much credit