Posted by AzBlueMeanie:
The November jobs report is out, and it's all good. Now if Congress can avoid effin' things up again with another government shutdown over a budget that is due December 13. Steve Benen reports, Job growth picks up steam, unemployment drops:
Expectations going into this morning’s new monthly jobs report were fairly strong, and as it turns out, the totals from the Bureau of Labor Statistics were even better than expected.
According to the new BLS report, the U.S. economy added 203,000 jobs in November, ahead of economists’ predictions. In a pleasant change of pace, the public sector did not drag down the overall figures – the private sector added 196,000 jobs, while the public sector, which has hemorrhaged jobs in recent years, added 7,000.
The overall unemployment rate dropped 7%. That’s a five-year low, though it’s a little misleading – it reflects furloughed federal workers who returned to their jobs after the government shutdown ended.
In terms of the revisions, September’s job totals were revised up from 163,000 to 175,000, while October’s figures were revised down slightly, from 204,000 to 200,000. With these revisions, employment gains in September and October combined were 8,000 higher than previously reported.
All told, so far in calendar year 2013, the economy has added 2.07 million jobs, which puts the U.S. on pace for the best year for job creation since before the 2008 crash. Indeed, this year is on track to the best for jobs since 2005, and the second best since 1999.
Here’s another chart, this one showing monthly job losses/gains in just the private sector since the start of the Great Recession.
Look at your chart, as the probability of Obama’s policies becoming law approached and hit 100%, the economy tanked and stayed tanked. 200,000 jobs puts us at a labor force participation so low that we haven’t seen it this llow since President Carter’s disastrous policies. This is the worst recovery, by far, by far since the great depression. Tax rates on small businessmen are too high, 90,000 pages of federal regulation are too much and welfare is too comfortable and Obama Care was the ton of brucks that broke the camels back.