[VOA]

Jeez, the Midwest was already "The Rust Belt" decades ago.

(I hope that my memory is correct...and that I'm not having a Bill Clinton
"I remember all those black churches being burned" moment)

[cripplecreek]

Jackson michigan lost it's decent jobs long before Bush came into office. Companies like Yard man, Good year and clark Equipment have been long gone for years.

[the_Watchman]

Total U.S. employment did peak in March 2001, but it peaked nine months earlier (June 2000) — on Clinton's watch — in the industrial Midwest.

The author makes unneeded concessions. It would take a real hard nosed person to blame decline in employment on a President which started during the second month of their term. I suspect that it takes 6 months for any administration change to take effect.

[netmilsmom]

You know that and I know that but my liberal family still calls it the "Bush Recession."

I actually had an tiff with my sister about Feb of 2001 where she kept screaming about the Bush Recession. I asked her why she lost her job in June of 2000.

[nutmeg]

read later bump

[ex-Texan]

*BUMP*!

[Jorge]

Unemployment is down to 5.6% which is below the 5.8% average of the 1990s.

[RedWing9]

Bump-marked...

[lewislynn]

Oh well, that's not the way the game is played, never has been, never will be.

[sixmil]

That's wierd, the free traders were telling us that manufacturing jobs were growing. Now they are going to tell us the opposite just to pass the buck to Clinton.