The US Jobs Situation is Sooo Bad...... How Bad is it jr?

Trusting Government numbers is probably the most foolish thing anyone can do.

nice thing about the govt ,,they can manipulate the numbers / manipulate the media . and the press ....

need any more be said ?

Given up ... off the tally.
Early SS ... off the tally.
Back to school ... off the tally.
Part time ... off the tally.
Underemployed ... off the tally.

The obamarroids have been very busy keeping the number low

Up next: Their white, they are all rich anyway ... off the tally

Anything to perpetrate the lie.

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It is sooo bad!!!!! and no amount of 0vomit's, or his worshipers, spin on the unemployment rates can change the facts. So shut up and confess, you failure!

Obama is not a communist... and discouraged workers no longer looking for work have never been considered part of the unemployment rate. This is nothing new...

True, but we have never had sooo many discouraged workers "not looking for work" in our history either. That is new.

How vwry true.

Socialist ... communist ... left wing liberal nut job moron ... all about the same to me.

Last month, in March 2012, there were 142 million employed, 12.7 million unemployed, 7.7 million U6, and 87.9 million "not in the labor force". The unemployment rate is now (supposedly) 8.2%.

With 154.7 million in the labor force, 1% represents about 1.55 million people. The unemployment rate is 3.6% higher, so there ought to be about 5.4 million less people working than five years ago. That's not true. There are indeed 5.6 million more unemployed, but there are also a staggering 9.2 million more people "not in the labor force," most often because they can't find a job. That means the total number of additional people actually out of work compared to 2007 is 14.8 million, or 9.7% of the labor force.

Add that to the original 4.6%, and the actual rate of unemployment is about 14.3%.

Also, there are 3.2 million more people working part-time jobs because they can't find full-time work. Let’s add. Today, there are 18 million more people not working or unable to find the job they want than in 2007. Add in the original 7.1 million already unemployed in 2007, plus the original 4.6 million U6, and the total is 29.7 million. In a universe of 155 million workers, the real U6 rate is thus approximately 19%. This is all Dept. of Labor data, offering an apples to apples comparison.

Nice work, any way you could post a link to theses stats? Not that I'm doubting you, It all seems reasonable to me. I just might want to reference them for use later.

Please go to the Dept of Labor website. They have tons of charts, stats, and everything else you can possibly want. This the United States Official database for Labor and Unemployment.

cool thanks

...to bad liberals don't do math , especially when there is a chance it will make their ideas -goals- leaders look bad.

If Obama isn't lying-then you know he isn't talking!

Must be rock day ,That seems to be where the libbies are hiding under today, Either that or the soro`s bus broke down. Funny how that works

Damn! you know with all the HELP Obama still gives illegal aliens, and they're still going home-we must have a real problem on our hands now then!

The unemployment rate is pure political BS. If people want to know really how the economy is doing, compare the EMPLOYMENT rate with previous years. For the employment rate, there is no "seasonally adjusted" number or can you simply not count people because they are now considered hopeless or lazy. I looked for this number on the internet, but can't find it anywhere - I wonder why?

Its pretty bad. This is going to be a major point against Obama this November.

for that to happen it would have to become "news" and anything that makes big O look bad is never news ...even FNC puts on kidd gloves for this guy

It was big news. Obama and Romney immediately jumped on it and held large speeches yesterday. Romney had the better speech. Happened to catch them both on CNN during my lunch break. Fox I'm sure had it too, and if CNN had it I'm sure the other networks picked it up in some fashion as well.

I missed that one – Honestly I listen to more Obama speeches than I do Romney so all I was able to catch all week was the Obama campaign about cutting the cost of education ….to bad there are no jobs for those educated idiots so no matter how low the payments they are still going be struggling to make them . LOL

How many more are still looking but no longer qualify for unemployment and therefore not counted?

I have to assume the employment count has been outsourced to Scytl also.

And MOST of those 115K jobs are sevice related.. These are the jobs that ONCE were called "Jobs that Americans wouldn't do" like dish washing and janitorial minimum wage jobs..

The ONLY Above Minimum Wage jobs created under this administration are PUBLIC SECTOR jobs and all of THEM are paid for by TAXPAYERS and adding to the National Debt....

I just got done with a couple weeks of delivering phone books for AT&T - no more phone book deliveries 'til next year. The White House Administration probably counts that as a job created.

And you can be consoled with the fact that Obama might actually WIN re-election by doing so..

My best wishes to you and in your search for REAL gainful employment..

Never have so many,, eager to work,, been so unsuccessful in finding it..

Bush and a Republican Congress that oversaw a 5.6% unemployment rate NEVER looked so good.. ( And I don't even LIKE Bush )

New conservative jobs/tax plan... if income exceeds 250k, no taxes and if less 250k, then double current rate to compensate as needed so job creators can use 10% of tax windfall to add new higher taxed jobs, so more serfs to support the elites

It's YOUR Clown in the driver's seat for the last Three and a half Years and YOUR CLowns that ran Congress since 2006 during which time the unemployment rate has skyrocketed..

Don't blame THIS on the Republicans..

When the Republicans last held the White House and the Congress,, the unemployment rate was only 5.6% and YOU Left Wingers claimed THEN that Bush should be crucified for even that..

They are so blind!

If you had a brain you might be dangerous.

Wrecking the economy is not a valid method of addressing the illegal alien problem.

And the majority of college students will vote for Obama......how brilliant is that!? Remove the fog please...young adults....and vote for anyone other than Obama for God's sake. Use your independent thinking skills and ask yourself one question....is the job market better now after Obama has been in office....yes or no? Don't get side tracked in your thought process.

I know of whole families being out of work. two or three generations sitting around idle.

Absolutely unbelievable.

It's so bad that I still don't have a job in over a year (got laid off). Very distressing.

3 years for me.