Good numbers...seems like they would have less reason to fudge (if they ever did) given the election is over.

Let's focus on the Middle Class tax cuts and making sure they don't pick regular people's pockets for $1000 to $3000.

First paragraph needs an edit.

"..cut 1,000 jobs, led but a loss of another..."

I have noticed gas prices have been steadily falling since the election, but of course Obama should not get credit for that. But perhaps a sign of renewed confidence in the stability that the Obama White House brings?

Self-employment.... Small business....

How many of these are people being forced to take what would otherwise be ordinary jobs, on a 1099 as an "independent contractor"?

The modern sharecroppers of the office world.

@ 2, gas prices fell below $2 after the last election, a brief collapse that I wondered about given the timing. It was the basis for claims that gas prices had "tripled" under Obama (claims which thankfully failed, given the fact that gas prices had reached record highs in the summer of 2008).

Granted, the prices aren't collapsing today in the fashion they did back then, but I'm still going to be interested if they fall to their lowest level since Obama's inauguration.

#3

I'm puzzled about this too.

How many are self-funded vanity projects running off a 401k.

Boy, Romney's path to the White House just keeps getting tougher and tougher...

When you take a closer look at the employment numbers, are they really as great as they seem? Much of the gain has been in retail--sounds like gearing up for the holiday shopping season. Manufacturing, which used to be a driver of good middle class living for the bulk of main street america, as per usual was flat. Construction employment fell. Temporary Employment, which I suspect has been a bigger driver of employment, increased.

How about all those discouraged unemployed not counted.

At least the unemployment rate hasn't gone up.

Not as

Bull. Shit.

If the job market actually is improving, then why are employers still receiving hundreds of resumes for open positions? This is still the case even in Seattle, where the eCONomy supposedly is better than most of the rest of the country.

The only logical answer is that more people are dropping out of the labor market, and the jobs created are low-wage, dead-end positions. Maybe the job market will shrink to a size that our eCONomy actually can support after the vast majority of the baby boomers have retired.

It's all a sad, desperate lie to try to help Obama's chances for reelection.

The people will not be fooled. Romney will win in a landslide.

Two words: ONE TERM PRESIDENT.

It's no use, Gay for Romney has stopped getting the checks. He's not coming back for the abuse he so rightly deserves.

7.7? Rounds to 8. And 8 rounds to 10.
We'll call it 10.

@9 there are literally hundreds of vacant positions in UW Medicine, at all levels, including part-time receptionists and groundskeepers.

Maybe you should move out of the South?

@3,

I wonder how many of the newly self-employed are trying to work freelance because they're sick of waiting for a traditional job.

@14 Yeah, that too.

@15, I know 5 or 6 people who did the same thing. Everyone is a consultant in this shitty economy.

Protip:

The unemployment rate only counts those who are collecting unemployment. It does not count those who's benefits have ran out or those unemployed who never had unemployment benefits, like recent grads.

Also lets see what happens to the rate when the holiday temp jobs run out.