[Congressman Billybob]

Two things will happen in the jobs report on Friday. The first is a new unemployment rate. It is 5.4% today -- a pretty good number. It was 5.6% when Clinton got reelected saying that the economy was in good shape. I predict it will be between 5.2% and 5.4%, hurricanes notwithstanding.

The larger fact is that in October the Labor Department makes the final corrections for all the monthly reports for the year. I predict that the total number of jobs in the United States as of that day will be LARGER than the number when Clinton left office and left a recession behind him. THAT will gut-shoot Kerry's whole argument behind his "domestic plan."

Congressman Billybob

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[JrAsparagus]

The estimates are 5.4% with 140k jobs created.

[DTogo]

My predicition:

(a) Not enough jobs will be created.

(b) The jobs created will not pay enough.

(c) The jobs created will not have adequate healthcare coverage.

(d) The job situation in the US is still miserable and all George Bush's fault.

(e) All of the above.

Sound familiar?

[JoeBobJr]

Historical data:

http://data.bls.gov/servlet/SurveyOutputServlet?data_tool=latest_numbers&series_id=CES0000000001&output_view=net_1mth