Job growth slows to 54,000 in May, rate up to 9.1%

Marketwatch ^ | 6.3.11 | Greg Robb

[jimfree]

Chocolate ration in June increased to 20 grams.

Yes, from 30 grams per week. Great 1984 reference.

[Pollster1]

After Stimulus, TARP, QE, QE2, Cash-for-Clunkers, and ObamaCare, a total of $5 trillion in federal waste, not counting the massive unfunded mandate, it's inconceivable that jobs would fail to grow. Again.

[treetopsandroofs]

“How do those people sleep at night?”

I’ve asked that question many times.... The few that aren’t totally evil trying to subjugate the will of anyone who won’t buy their lies must be trying to convince themselves that they’re just reading what’s put in front of them, and they are just happy to be employed and feeding their immediate families.

[Recovering_Democrat]

Bush’s fault.

[ealgeone]

I thought the mickey d’s numbers weren’t counted in last months numbers? if that’s the case, then these numbers reflect mcd’s hiring (their payoff for their healthcare exemption).

take those away and where are we unemployment wise? not good, not good at all.

[Trust but Verify]

50% (5.6% of their pay)of their pension cost and 12 % of their health care costs. Maybe not enough, but a good start.

[Iron Munro]

Obama: The Movie

(I think we saw this part before)

[kabar]

Why should they wake up. They and the MSM believe Obama is unbeatable in 2012.

[wbill]

If someone gets a job for 6 hours a week - are they counted in that number? - anyone know?

I don't think so.

The U6 numbers count "underemployed", that would include your example. U6 is somewhere around 16%, the last time I looked.

[algernonpj]

Bush’s fault.

If only ... We'd all be way better off if it were. Unfortunately it isn't. All our 'Globalist' chickens are coming home to roost.

IMHO, unlike Obama Bush loved this country and had 'good intentions'.

[oldleft]

[kabar]

Does it include the 125,000 legal foreign workers who enter EACH MONTH. This includes those here on work visas and permanent immigrant visas.

125,000 brand new foreign workers with work permits each month -- HERE'S THE PROOF

[COUNTrecount]

“If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.” George Bernard Shaw

THIS is the only thing in this regime that is not unexpected.

[Nobel_1]

Couple of key employment charts:

Average Duration of Unemployment now near 40 Weeks

Labor Force Participation Rate now at 1985 Levels

True Unemployment has been Static at 23%

[kabar]

Obama will also say that things would have been much worse without his policies and that he got the car out of the ditch. Lots of saved jobs.

[Iron Munro]

[algernonpj]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2729226/posts?page=29#29

[driftless2]

Yes, and the “experts” used to say the UR would never dip below six percent because of structural problems or whatever. It went under five percent during the Bush years nationwide, and in Wisconsin, where I live, various areas went under four percent. The UR is as high as it is because of the idiot in the White House...nothing else.

[algernonpj]

Thanks for posting these charts, pictures worth a thousand words.

[rollo tomasi]

“If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.” George Bernard Shaw

Obama, from “Hope and Change” to “An Unexpected Disaster” (Not pertaining to those who understood his deception in the 2008 campaign). Never in my life has “unexpected” been used to cover and justify failed policies. The American media are basically treasonous lemmings.