[Da Coyote]

And of course, this was “unexpected”...by those economic geniuses who are sooooo much smarter than the uneducated Tea Partiers.

[ClearCase_guy]

unless the government makes an "unusual" seasonal adjustment

Oh, they would never do that.

[BobinIL]

It seems like there are two numbers this administration is working very hard to avoid. Unemployment at 10% or above and the Dow at below 10,000. Manipulation seems rampant.

[Uri’el-2012]

Unemployment Rate - U6
2000 - 2011

shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach

[Longbow1969]

I bet the unemployment rate will drop tomorrow to 9.0%. Not because many jobs are added, but because more people have dropped out of the labor force.

My predictions for Friday’s numbers:

Unemployment rate: 9.0%
Jobs: 80,000 added

These numbers will obviously basically suck, but the media and Hussein will call these figures signs of great progress.

[American in Israel]

I love the new Goobermint math, a year ago we were at 9.7 and the unemployment has gone up bout every month and now we are at 9.1 unemployment.

Time for most in Congress to join them.

[Hoodat]

They need to out these idiots who ‘expect’ unemployment to drop and fire each and every one of them. After watching them get it wrong every week for the last 130 weeks, I am beginning to see a pattern emerge.

[existentialist]

unless so many unemployed people became discouraged during the month and stopped seeking jobs so that they are no longer calculated as part of the national workforce by the federal government

I've always wondered about how this part is determined - do people somehow "report" that they've given up? If one doesn't have a job, can't find a job they don't necessarily give up completely, do they? They surely would be open to a job, one would think. Besides, what alternative is there?