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CNN - 5.6% Unemployment is 'low' (1996), 5.6% Unemlpoyment is high (Today)
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Posted on 02/27/2004 7:01:49 PM PST by Phisher

Edited on 04/29/2004 2:03:58 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Economists didn't expect June's unemployment rate to be much different from May's, which was an already-low 5.6 percent. But in fact, it did fall -- to 5.3 percent. The unemployment rate hasn't been that low since June 1990.


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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: ccrm; cnn; dol; liberalmedia; mediabias; unemployment
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Funny we are almost at the exact same figures and unemployment is being categorically called 'skyrocketing'

The current unemployment rate is at 5.6% - Why isn't CNN calling it 'already low'

1 posted on 02/27/2004 7:01:49 PM PST by Phisher
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To: Phisher
Beautiful catch, Phisher!
2 posted on 02/27/2004 7:04:44 PM PST by So Cal Rocket (If consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds, John F. Kerry’s mind must be freaking enormous)
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To: Phisher
Send this to: comments@foxnews.com
3 posted on 02/27/2004 7:06:38 PM PST by jmstein7 (Real Men Don't Need Chunks of Government Metal on Their Chests to be Heroes)
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To: Phisher; So Cal Rocket
Send this to: comments@foxnews.com
4 posted on 02/27/2004 7:06:51 PM PST by jmstein7 (Real Men Don't Need Chunks of Government Metal on Their Chests to be Heroes)
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To: Phisher
Great find!

Can't someone get to the White House and/or RNC and get them to start talking about how the #'s aren't nearly as bad as the press is making it out to be?

We need to organize a mass mailing to the RNC with suggestions on this matter since the RNC has traditionally done such an abysmal job of defending itself.
5 posted on 02/27/2004 7:07:40 PM PST by Peach (The Clintons have pardoned more terrorists than they ever captured or killed.)
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To: Phisher
5.6% is well below the thirty year average for the unemployment, according to the WSJ.
6 posted on 02/27/2004 7:09:23 PM PST by Eva
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To: Phisher
Ha
7 posted on 02/27/2004 7:10:13 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: jmstein7
Done but it would help if we all did it.
8 posted on 02/27/2004 7:10:14 PM PST by Peach (The Clintons have pardoned more terrorists than they ever captured or killed.)
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To: Phisher
The Labor Department said Friday that businesses added 239,000 workers to their payrolls during June. The vast majority of the jobs added were in the service industry, including restaurants, bars, and agencies that place temporary workers.

And funny, but I don't see them calling these 'McJobs'.

9 posted on 02/27/2004 7:11:42 PM PST by StriperSniper (Manuel Miranda - Whistleblower)
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To: Phisher
interesting.

Where is an article in which they call it skyrocketing this time?
10 posted on 02/27/2004 7:12:31 PM PST by rwfromkansas ("Men stumble over the truth, but most pick themselves up as if nothing had happened." Churchill)
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To: Peach
I feel an "action item coming on" :)

That is, if someone else doesn't beat me to it first.
11 posted on 02/27/2004 7:13:48 PM PST by jmstein7 (Real Men Don't Need Chunks of Government Metal on Their Chests to be Heroes)
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To: Phisher
*Super Bump* !!!
12 posted on 02/27/2004 7:17:02 PM PST by ex-Texan
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To: Phisher
Compare this with:

http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/02/09/bush.economy.ap/index.html

Bush highlights economy this week

Monday, February 9, 2004 Posted: 1:36 PM EST (1836 GMT)

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Trying to steal some of the spotlight from Democrats seeking his job, President Bush is highlighting upswings in the U.S. economy in three events this week, including one in Missouri, a state he narrowly won in 2000 and has been tirelessly courting ever since.

Bush's trip Monday to SRC Automotive Inc., an employee-owned company in Springfield, Missouri, that rebuilds engines and other parts for autos and heavy equipment, marks his 15th visit to Missouri.

He meets at the White House on Tuesday with economic leaders and talks about jobs and education on Thursday in Pennsylvania, another key electoral state he has visited 24 times since taking office.

The trip to America's heartland coincides with the release Monday of Bush's 2004 economic report, a document prepared by his Council of Economic Advisers that is expected to underscore gains in the economy.

In that address, Bush said America has been able to surmount the bursting of the stock market bubble in early 2000 followed by the first recession in a decade, the terrorist attacks, two wars and corporate accounting scandals.

"Americans have responded to each challenge and now we have the results: renewed confidence, strong growth, new jobs and a mounting prosperity that will reach every corner of America," Bush wrote.

Democrats have seized on the troubled job market to boost their election prospects. Bush insists, however, that the situation is turning around, albeit slowly. "It's happening. It's happening," Bush said in an NBC "Meet the Press" interview televised Sunday. "There is good momentum when it comes to the creation of new jobs." Nationally, the jobless rate fell to 5.6 percent in January, the lowest level in more than two years, as employers stepped up hiring -- but not fast enough to ally concerns about the prolonged job drought. Missouri's 5 percent unemployment rate in December was unchanged since November.

Different employment surveys paint contrasting pictures about the health of the economy, which has lost 2.2 million jobs since Bush took office three years ago.

The Labor Department said companies added 112,000 new jobs in January -- the fifth straight month of payroll increases and the largest in three years. Some 366,000 jobs were added in the past five months, it said. Analysts, however, are looking for payroll gains of 300,000 or more every month to demonstrate that sustained job growth is indeed under way.

For a more optimistic look at the nation's employment situation, some economists point to a separate survey of households, which indicated that employment jumped by 496,000 in January. The household survey also counts self-employed and contract workers.

Bush credits his tax cuts with improvements in the economy. Democrats say his economic policies aren't working all that well.

"After months and months of disappointing job creation, it's clear that the administration's policies are still not working for ordinary Americans," Senate Democratic Leader Tom Daschle said of the unemployment figures released last week that show 8.3 million people out of work. "For the 42nd month in a row, America's manufacturing sector lost jobs."

Missouri Rep. Dick Gephardt, the former House Democratic leader who quit the race for his party's presidential nomination, has endorsed the current front-runner, Sen. John Kerry, D-Massachusetts. Kerry carried Missouri in the state's primary on February 3.

The Bush-Cheney campaign is keenly aware of the difference between Missouri and neighboring Illinois, two important states in this year's election. Bush won Missouri's 11 electoral votes by fewer than 79,000 votes in 2000. He lost Illinois' 21 electoral votes to Democrat Al Gore.

Someone, though, should tell the Secret Service.

Apparently confusing Springfield, Illinois, with Springfield, Missouri, the president's security detail called Springfield, Illinois, last week trying to arrange a visit by Bush, said Rebecca Rausch, a spokeswoman for Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, a Democrat.

She said the Secret Service quickly realized that Bush wanted to go to the Show-Me State -- not the Land of Lincoln.

13 posted on 02/27/2004 7:17:17 PM PST by So Cal Rocket (If consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds, John F. Kerry’s mind must be freaking enormous)
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To: Phisher
Excellent find!

This needs to be pointed out very loudly.
14 posted on 02/27/2004 7:18:22 PM PST by FairOpinion ("America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our country." --- G. W. Bush)
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To: Phisher
Where can one find out what average wages are today?
15 posted on 02/27/2004 7:21:51 PM PST by Choose Ye This Day (I've got a fever...and the only prescription is MORE COWBELL! --rock legend, Bruce Dickinson)
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To: MNLDS
http://www.bls.gov/cps/home.htm

Unemployment Rate:
5.6% in Jan 2004
16 posted on 02/27/2004 7:25:24 PM PST by Phisher
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To: MNLDS
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t17.htm

Average hourly earnings in Jan 04 was: $15.49
17 posted on 02/27/2004 7:25:29 PM PST by So Cal Rocket (If consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds, John F. Kerry’s mind must be freaking enormous)
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To: Phisher
Well done.
18 posted on 02/27/2004 7:26:44 PM PST by Finalapproach29er (" Permitting homosexuality didn't work out very well for the Roman Empire")
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To: MNLDS
You can select the official government figures here
19 posted on 02/27/2004 7:27:02 PM PST by Dilbert56
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To: Phisher
That is fabulous! Excellent post.
20 posted on 02/27/2004 7:28:01 PM PST by harpo11 (Who Let the Left Out? The Right Didn't Start the Fire! We're Fightin' to Put It Out!)
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