Job Growth Numbers for April 2010
Despite job gains, the unemployment rate rose to 9.9% in April, 2.5 percentage points higher than President Obama promised when advocating his stimulus bill in January 2009. Counting people who have given up looking for work and part-time workers who would prefer to be working full time, the "underemployment rate" rose to 17.1 in April, alarmingly close to the record high of 17.4% in October and a foreboding sign of jobseekers' difficulty to find work. When only 21% of Americans consider the economy to be in good condition, according to the latest AP Poll, the Obama Administration and Democrats in Congress would do well to focus on job creation and abandon job killing and tax-hiking provisions like those found in the new health care bill.
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