The real unemployment rate is more like 14%, the percentage of the population in the workforce has dropped to a 40 year low, and household wages are still falling meaning that people are taking jobs that pay less.

No doubt the stock market and consumer confidence will surge another 20%!! IT'S A RECOVERY!!11!!

This isn't a "good" jobs report. 175,000 is just treading water, barely keeping up with new entries into the workforce.

Yeah, @2. The numbers of people exiting the workforce I've seen are in the neighborhood of 300,000/month (through job loss, retirement, disability, or whatever), so this isn't really very special.

Most gains are service sector. Losses in industry. That said, locally not so bad.

Yea adding jobs totally makes up for being a tyrant who wipes his ass with the bill of rights, but I guess that is somehow bushes fault.

And how many of these jobs are minimum wage