July Jobs Numbers: Unemployment Falls to 9.1; 117,000 Jobs Added
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Hiring picked up slightly in July and the unemployment rate dipped to 9.1 percent, an optimistic sign after the worst day on Wall Street in nearly three years.
The Labor Department says employers added 117,000 jobs last month. That’s an improvement from the past two months.
The mild gain may ease investors’ concerns after the Dow Jones industrial average plummeted more than 500 points over concerns that the U.S. may be entering another recession.
Still, the economy needs twice as many net jobs per month to rapidly reduce unemployment. The rate has topped 9 percent in every month except two since the recession officially ended in June 2009.
The unemployment rate fell partly because some unemployed workers stopped looking for work. That means they are no longer counted as unemployed.
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Comments (91)
christos
Posted on August 5, 2011 at 9:47am……Oh of course flood insurance,in a desert these Darwinian Bafoons,actually believe anybody that matters will believe this,sure government jobs probably,and double fudge on the numbers,vacuum up the private sector so they can implement their Octobamapus infrastructure N.W.O. in place I meant Octopus with all the creepy tentacles knowing when anyone even buys a band aid,no thanks +JESUS+ is bringing in the rest of the gentiles for the Rapture then were schoom gone,to meet +JESUS+ in the clouds while they are left here on Hell on earth their idols won’t do them much good then nor do they now most of them need look know further than a mirror to see their idol,TA—and again Fudge is always best served on a platter looks better that way right…and refrigerated prior also.
Report Post »SimpleTruths
Posted on August 5, 2011 at 10:34amDude, I think you need to adjust your meds.
Report Post »Twinspeedr
Posted on August 5, 2011 at 11:45amIs this who you really want to be when Jesus comes?
Report Post »Butterbean74
Posted on August 5, 2011 at 1:31pmWell He does think he is going to fly away.
“I am against those who teach my children to fly to save their souls.”
Report Post »God, from Ezekiel 13
Pujols
Posted on August 5, 2011 at 8:35pmThe Unemployment Falls because people run of of Unemployment Benefits.
Report Post »Not because any jobs were made. Real Unemployment is 16.6%
Mexicans it’s 36% and Blacks it’s 39%. GO OBAMA. REAL CHANGE?
Carol Ingian
Posted on August 5, 2011 at 9:54pmSee a doctor. Soon!
Report Post »bhelmet
Posted on August 5, 2011 at 9:47amThe revised numbers will tell a different story and we know they will be in a negative light. After a 500 point yesterdayt, did anyone really believe the job report would be negative? More DC “creative accounting”.
Report Post »GroundZero is Nuclear Demolition x3
Posted on August 5, 2011 at 9:58amPeople have started to understand how to read between the lines, but it too late for them to understand the towers were taken down by the port authority. Really sad, as all this finance debacle is only retribution for not holding the real criminals accountable for setting off 3 low radiation nukes in down town manhattan. Should have used high radiation, well deserved for their incredible ignorance!!
Report Post »vennoye
Posted on August 5, 2011 at 10:24amYou’re SOOOOOOOO right!! Anyone who believes these numbers has not been watching this Administration……….. All I heard after the market closed was how people expected the market to go down again today, after the job numbers came out!! Just change the job numbers……solve problem!! Stupid citizens will not know the difference……..aren’t that smart!! THEY WISH!!
Report Post »lylejk
Posted on August 5, 2011 at 12:07pmI 100% agree with you Bhelmet. How many of you actually believe in anything (espectially w.r.t. the economy) that comes out of the idiots in D.C.? What a freaking joke. Looke what they already have done with the jobs report from just a few months back. The market knows this too; Dow’s still dropping like a sieve. Time to wake up folk and kick out all the progressives (from both parties). Time to eat cake is their motto. You know what happened to the French Monarchy soon afterwards. :)
Report Post »bringiton
Posted on August 5, 2011 at 9:40amOh, ok then. They really do thing we’re stupid….uhhh….Wait…Look who’s in office..Why wouldn’t they think that!
Report Post »Emrys
Posted on August 5, 2011 at 9:42amThe numbers will be revised, as always, down, and nothing will have happened for the month that was newsworthy in jobs numbers.
Report Post »michael48
Posted on August 5, 2011 at 5:55pmand the Sun will rise in the WEST…Right OBOZO???? Stink-hole Dem/Rino-Tards think …on occasion…perhaps…well, never mind I’m not feeling generous today…Dem/Rino-Tards = “to stupid to breathe”…no mo PC…get to the truth , confuse the he!! out of them !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Tea for Me…next..
Report Post »Bret
Posted on August 5, 2011 at 9:20amWait for the updated figures… Do they think we are morons?? Yippee!!! 9.1%
Report Post »IntransigentMind
Posted on August 5, 2011 at 9:28amNobody believes the government or its shills in the press any longer. It’s like something out of Atlas Shrugged. I think this sums it up:
Report Post »http://markamerica.com/2011/08/05/blow-back-how-obamanomics-is-wrecking-the-country/
Shiroi Raion
Posted on August 5, 2011 at 9:33amRemember that the corruptocrats changed the way they count unemployment to hide their failure. The REAL unemployment rate is more like 18 or 19%.
Report Post »Obama Bin Lying
Posted on August 5, 2011 at 9:18amI love how the WH spins it, only 9.1% of the country is without jobs. I suspect that number is much higher….they seem happy that 9% are still not working. Two years after the spender in Chief spent trillions to get people working.
Report Post »SimpleTruths
Posted on August 5, 2011 at 10:37amIt would likely be in the 11 – 12% unemployment range if the money wasn’t spent.
Report Post »nysparkie
Posted on August 5, 2011 at 9:17amWOW! 1/10th of a percent! The recovery has started..
Report Post »nysparkie
Posted on August 5, 2011 at 9:18amAgain.
Report Post »Locked
Posted on August 5, 2011 at 9:52amAnd yet I bet those people with new jobs are pretty dang happy.
Report Post »The Eradicator
Posted on August 5, 2011 at 10:28amHow many “recoveries” have we had?…
Report Post »The Toad
Posted on August 5, 2011 at 9:14amAdministration is cooking the numbers for the manchild! It’s almost impossible to beat a guy who has the MSM and everything thing else in his back pocket. If the republicans don’t win in 2012 I doubt if they will ever win another election! The deck is getting to stacked against them!
Report Post »AWatchman4Him
Posted on August 5, 2011 at 9:05amThese numbers are so bogus… All they do is lie, lie, lie, no truth can be found in this administration or the wall street frauds. There days in this life are numbered for God see’s all they do.
Report Post »does this burka make me look fat?
Posted on August 5, 2011 at 9:25amI agree!! Maybe I’m just being stupid or something (after all, I didn’t go to Harvard or Columbia)….but when you’re adding an average of 400,000 newly unemployed per week to the lines and only 154,000 new jobs are allegedly created in the month of July….how is it that that unemployment rate drops? I would think that just to keep the rate level….one would have to create as many jobs as were lost. I don’t get it!! Can anyone explain it??? or is this just Obamanomics??
Report Post »Penn
Posted on August 5, 2011 at 9:04amWho do you know who has gotten a job in the last six months that is better than or as good as the last job they had? The manipulators are setting the proles up for another smackdown.
Report Post »Locked
Posted on August 5, 2011 at 9:54amMy best friend. My sister. Two of my sister’s friends, an ex of mine… yeah, a lot of people, actually!
Even in a bad economy, people can and will find jobs if they actually put some effort into it.
Report Post »Therightsofbilly
Posted on August 5, 2011 at 4:00pm@LOCKED
WOW, just too funny.
I find this post of yours a couple of hours after I reply to your post in the Education / Religion story.
Looks like I hit the nail on the head, huh?
Report Post »Locked
Posted on August 5, 2011 at 4:35pm@Billy
That you can’t make this up? Indeed! Because it’s all true :-)
Report Post »The Toad
Posted on August 5, 2011 at 9:02amGreat numbers Obamas ratings will go up! Sad day for the republicans. The republicans can’t do anything right anyhow. Get use to the idea of another 5 years of Obama. There’s no republican canidates right now that could beat him! Obama has a lot of money and a strong voter base. Blacks, hispanics, unions and the list goes on and on!
Report Post »ProbIemSoIver
Posted on August 5, 2011 at 9:13amlol. useful idiot. Obama took the place from Woodrow Wilson as the worst president in history. Ron Paul has almost as many voters for 2012 at this point. The Muslim, Socialist, Saboteur is finished. And liberal losers will have to actually work for a meal, soon. I love it !!! No more handouts !!!
Report Post »does this burka make me look fat?
Posted on August 5, 2011 at 9:25amMy dog could kick Obama’s a$$ right now.
Report Post »SimpleTruths
Posted on August 5, 2011 at 10:43amSorry to disappoint you but the Tea Party woke up the sleeping giant and will crush you in 2012 – you’ll be lucky to keep the House. You are in the minority and will stay in the minority.
Report Post »TulsaYeeHaw
Posted on August 5, 2011 at 12:36pm@simpletruths
Report Post »Keep telling yourself that.
Had Bush done nothing, then Obama left it alone (not to mention congress) we would have recovered by now.
TulsaYeeHaw
Posted on August 5, 2011 at 12:38pmBTW, what sleeping giant did the tea party wake up? The professional protestors? The people who earn alot of money and have someone tell them that by having half confiscated that will help the economy?
Report Post »American Chick
Posted on August 5, 2011 at 8:59amTotally bogus BS numbers!
There‘s more jello under these numbers than Bill Cosby’s stock portfolio!
Report Post »Sicialian Eyeball
Posted on August 5, 2011 at 8:58amSir,there’s a roach in my chalupa! Good paying jobs,every one of them. Yeah,right…………..
Report Post »poorrichard09
Posted on August 5, 2011 at 8:58amMeanwhile, Pres. Louis the 14th and Michele Antoinette party at their own little Versailles with the elite and pig out on bbq while Michelle says “let the little people eat veggies”!
Report Post »American Chick
Posted on August 5, 2011 at 8:56amPoppycock!
These numbers are just as fake as B. Hussein Orwell’s commitment to “reigning in spending”!
I CALL BULL CRAP!
Report Post »Texas Grasshopper
Posted on August 5, 2011 at 8:55amthe jig is up …everybody knows these numbers dont include people who are not “ eligible ” for various reasons …just another example of how goverment tries to manipulate the public …..doesnt work anymore
Report Post »NickDeringer
Posted on August 5, 2011 at 8:54amIt will be interesting to see how the market reacts. The slow decline of America continues. It‘s difficult to convince people of what a bad job Professor O’Barry is doing because they can’t see the decline. By the time they do it will be too late.
Report Post »Mil-Dot
Posted on August 5, 2011 at 8:54amLiars. I don’t believe a word that comes out of this admin.
Report Post »BQI
Posted on August 5, 2011 at 8:53amWhew….for a moment there I thought we might be sliding back into a recession. With numbers like these we will recover by 2020.
Obama’s Fate Lies in His Hands @ http://www.blackquillandink.
Report Post »com
mikee1
Posted on August 5, 2011 at 8:53amMore ******** from BIG GOV. These days they are telling you these things: IT IS SO HOT-GLOBAL WARMING; IT IS ALL REAGAN’S FAULT; BUSH CAUSED THE CRASH; ODUMBO IS THE SMARTEST AND BEST PREZ. EVER, AND HE WAS BORN IN HI. LOL. THEY CANNOT STOP LYING. THEY ARE IN WAY TO DEEP. THEY ARE GOING TO KEEP ON LYING FROM NOW ON. THERE IS NO TRUTH IN THEM.
Report Post »hersey10
Posted on August 5, 2011 at 8:49amSeriously , how does hiring pick up slightly when layoffs are at a 16 month high ?
Report Post »Susie
Posted on August 5, 2011 at 8:49amGood grief.
Report Post »In a country of over 300 million how can the creation of only 117,000 jobs be spun into anything akin to positive ? I know in this area, summer employers hired for the hoped-for July tourist rush. Unfortunately those job will be over as quickly as this year’s lackluster tourism season ends.
13th Imam
Posted on August 5, 2011 at 8:47amConnecticut just lost 40,000 jobs. Must be Dan Malloy’s D, CT leadership skills. Our Taxes just necessarily skyrocketed also. The union‘s are revoteing on his Goodybag Contract where no layoff’s were promised if the union promised to have their members promise not to. get sick.
Report Post »ProbIemSoIver
Posted on August 5, 2011 at 8:46amSure. get this BS figure out before the opening bell. Give me a break !!!
Report Post »lillymckim
Posted on August 5, 2011 at 8:48amI don’t believe this for one minute!
Report Post »we are in a depression stop the BS!
burr99
Posted on August 5, 2011 at 8:45amNow they will use this to try to tell us that the economy is recovering. Nonsense. There is no recovery. Untill they reduce taxes, and get rid of regulations/governmnet, things will only get worse.
Report Post »SimpleTruths
Posted on August 5, 2011 at 10:40amWell we could start with the 11 people I hired this year, and the 8 I hired last year. Average salary = $65K, top earner over 100K (performance based). That’s not BS, I’m just in the right business – technology.
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on August 5, 2011 at 8:44amWait for the revised numbers. You know they always fiddle with those things after they make the initial release.
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