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Live From New York! It’s Jobs Friday!

    • all up!

    • I don't understand the "Joy", we need 400,000 jobs a month for the next YEAR to get back to the same spot we were at when the Benghazi Liar took office.

    • The libs always say "Speaker Boehner where are the jobs? .... well there you go you rabid Anti American filth !

      This has zero to do with King Obama

    • Yeah we might of beat the number, but still weak all around

      Check: Dailyjobcuts com

    • be dead wrong. He called a 140,000 number and a 8.0 rate. It's always nice when he's so predictable.

    • Thats nuts. The unemployment is really around 25% .

    • This report is a joke .... incomes at an 8 year low and the participation rate at 30 year lows

      Keep people unemployed long enough to fall off the report and create low paying dead end jobs

      All Hail or Extreme Ruler !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    • I wonder how much this news will be revised in a couple of weeks. Anything to improve Obama's numbers...even temporarily.

    • It's Obama's fault.

    • Anything to bring Obama's approval numbers up...even temporarily...until the jobs report is usual.

    • Dow 13,000: come on retail investors...we need to dump
      Dow 13,500: COME ON retail investors...we need to dump
      Dow 14,000: COME ON RETAIL INVESTORS...we need to dump

    • Sorry to be the contrarian here, but the BLS A-1 tells me we've added about 1.5 million jobs in the last 12 months, or about 125K per month. And that is the database of record.

      If there is good news in that very anemic number, it is that full-time jobs have increased at the same rate.

      Call me when the BLS A-1 tells me we've averaged 200K new jobs over 12 months. While still not good enough, at least it will be a sign that we are moving in the right direction.

    • It's all about the denominator. Fewer participants seeking work in the overall workforce. Nominal or no significant gains in employment, still results in a decreased U-3 percentage. Folks...understand how the math works to arrive at a number that will be touted as "progress". Temper this with likely no change (or an increase) in entitlement programs participation.

    • America moves forward in spite of the best efforts of the politicians....... Congress, get on board or get out of the way!

    • Which means the February number is likely to be revised in March.

    • The economy is recovering and wingers hate it.

      Good President = good economy, thank you President Obama

    • I'm sorry, but how the hell does anyone posting on this come to the conclusion that this is bad news? This is Bizarro world.

    • Well the U6 number that is not adjusted by Bureau of Labor SWAG is at 14.3% unemployment - should we be happy about this - it is proof that we are being miss lead by the QE5+ - the reason we had this crash - subprime mortgages are going on again through FHA only this time the fall will be worse because of our debt load

    • @Wingers howling --- Your ignorance is astounding

    • Until the revisions come out and reveal the number was closer to 150,000

    • Well Dave when obama spend 7 trillion dollars to help this economy and the numbers only show modest gains which, over time would of produced any way, then you gets folks who have worked to pay those 7 trillion dollars Obama has spent for really nothing ....they are not happy. The sad part is you think it was worth it?

    • And that vote is going to keep the bull running. Giddy up!

      Hope all you wingers are hangin on to your gold, and staying out of the market.

    • And what would the job numbers be without the vastly increased production of Guns & Ammo to meet the skyrocketing demand? Guess Obama does get credit for that.

    • So many obama paid posters here lol. The 7.7% means nothing because they don't count people who have given up looking for work. The only number that matters is U6:

      Can't spin that one away sorry!

    • @ Wingers Howling----I second 'Panties', you're absolutely clueless. Celebrating cooked jobs numbers knowing full well they'll be downward revised in a few weeks while we pump trillions into the stock market to keep it propped up is akin to celebrating leaving granny on life support for another six months when she has been brain dead for two years!

    • The KING OBONGO calculator smoking now from these fictitious numbers !!

    • How amny of these jobs are entry level? how many are seasonal? are they all fulltime? what sectors were the jobs created in? if they are seasonal that means either 2nd jobs or college jobs that will go away in a few months. While its nice to see, not getting excited, especially since next monthe they will revise it. then we still have the issue of either inflation, deflation or stagnation dependiogn on which economist you want to listen to. what happens to all jobs when the Fed at some point has to raise the interest rates.

    • The headline should be Friday Night Lights out!
      I am a Texasboy and I would just love for the fools who lay out these grotesque and absolutely
      intelligence insulting numbers and percentages to announce them at halftime during one of
      "Any town" Texas High School Football game. The gutless wonders would be "gang tackled"
      by everyone in the stadium, including small children with big fingers on their little hands.
      Nobody gets out alive until the spittle spewing "lefties" tell the scorekeeper to show the real numbers
      on the scoreboard (14.5% unemployment). A win-win all around.

    • So January revised down 30,000 to just 119,000. And we're supposed to believe this month's figures?

    • 7.9% Adjusted unemployment, 8.1% Unadjusted unemployment rate, Worst 5-year period showing for both unemployment rates since Great Depression. - No dancing in the streets yet!

    • In the immortal words of Flava flav:

      Don't believe the hype

    • Yet the labor participation rate continues to notch downward. How long will the lemmings continue to believe everything this administration chucks out there?

    • Time ramp the market for the all important bubblicious wealth effect!!!

      Surely it will work this time.

    • Ahhh whoever calculated that rise in the wage please go back to somewhere around the 2nd grade and lear math. 4 cents divided by $23.82 is a whopping .16% increase. Let's subtract the communist and thiefs tax increase as of the first of the year and real take home for the average middle class guy who obummer is looking out for has dumped about $4k this year. More obama liars.

    • I guess we're just going to forget those people that have gone on to disability because they couldn't find a decent job. Not to mention, those that are working part time when they hope to work full time. Nevermind those that have been forced into retirement and those that have decided like myself to become self-employed. Talk about your typical BIG GOVERNMENT snow job. These employment numbers are a big fat farce.

    • It is a riot to watch you wingers tr to explain away the great numbers on our economy.

      Ha ha ha! Keep it coming wingers!

    • for the truth. The unemployment number is over 15% and has been for at least 4 years.

      Liberal equals liar

    • So this is the start of a sustained run of good reports? After January was revised down to a number that, had it been the initial estimate, would have been a huge disappointment? Oh and try averaging the 2013 numbers to date - 177 ain't bad, but it's not 236K. And downward revisions are what we see at the start of recessions. It will be interesting to see how far down February is revised by May. This is a good report, but the good news is likely fleeting. Enjoy the day, Bulls!

    • Stocks are going up because counterfeit money is being pumped in by the NWO FED.

      Job numbers are cooked by the liars in D.C. - especially the Commiecrats.

      (BTW - How can things be so great that Obama should be praised, but at the same time be so bad that it's the Republican's fault? Which is it, good or bad? - Think about that, if you have a brain.)

    • who want America to fail as indicated by these comments who wish for the President and the country to fail.

    • Spin these numbers however you like, the truth is: our growth rate is .10% (that’s one tenth of one percent for you Obama supporters), we have the highest corporate tax rate IN THE WORLD (that’s more tax paid by businesses here in the US than ANYWHERE else on EARTH for you Obama supporters), our debt has grown from $10 trillion to $17.5 trillion in FOUR YEARS (that’s beyond the comprehension of you Obama supporters), debt held by the Federal Reserve has grown from $500 billion in 2008 to $2.6 trillion in 2013 (again beyond the comprehension of Obama and his supporters) and just to sum it up, our debt as a percent of GDP has grown from 65% in 2008 to 115% in 2013 (that means we are spending more than we take in- something you Obama supporters are quite familiar with) there are 3 million fewer jobs now than in 2008 and the decline in the unemployment rate from 7.8% to 7.7% is a function of 130,000 people dropping out of the work force for a stunning 3 million fewer jobs than in 2007-even with the 236,00 added. Labor participation has dropped to 63.3% for an incredible 14th consecutive month below 65%- worst since Jimmy Carter was president (pay no attention to that, Obama supporters, you’re part of the remaining, non-working, 36.7% anyway).

    • Obama forever!

    • Pointing out that the country is failing is not the same as wanting it to fail.

    • All CONservatives are enemies of America

      No one need "wish" Obama would fail... Obama is the king of FAIL. Have some more koolaid.

    • well sounds great. now break it down into private versus goverment and dont forget to add the people who have left the workforce and joined public welfare. for once add those then lets see the real numbers. goverment employees should not count because since they do not produce and are payed by tax dollars that arepretty much ebb and flow, when you go off the grid and become a welfare person they also do not count them either. things look better but in fact its all smoke and no mirrors. i run a business i can see whats really going on.

    • The labor Force Paticipaption rate ticked down and is now tied with the lowest point since 1981

    • This country still faces a jobs crisis. Adding 11 million illegal aliens to the workforce and increasing

      legal immigration as the Gang of Eight is proposing is an insult to unemployed Americans.
      Google this: NUMBERSUSA .
      Once you are registered, go to the "action board"

    • We're spending money like drunken sailors, propping up the stock market with printed cash, cooking the bookson inflation and growth, and we STILL are basically treading water? Oh, happy days are here again!!!!!

    • Estimated 7 million non-agricultural jobs are held by illegal aliens .
      Illegals are using fake, or stolen identity to hold jobs.
      Urge your Members of Congress to support Mandatory E-verify legislation .

    • Doesn't quite balance the 260,000 who dropped out of the workforce during the same time period though.

    • Maybe if our country had a budget prepared by the democratic senate each year for the last 4 plus years presented to the America people, everything about our government, economy, and employment situation would be 10 times better. Tell Obama to quit his perpetual campaigning, sit down in the Oval Office and govern the US like a real president.

    • You're officially a lemming if you believe any of the propaganda that comes out of the politburo in DC. Especially job numbers.

    • so on drudge it says unemploy stats:

      whites 6.8%
      blacks 13.8%
      hispanics 9.6%
      forget teens ...

      so what does this mean???

      "minorities" are sitting on their butts while whitey works???

      or is it still racist racist racist???

      barry has convinced many to sit aroud and collect ...

      redistribution in full swing

      socialist pig

    • What is real unemployment # counting everyone who has dropped out of the workforce??? How about the underemployed ??? 15% ???

    • how many were removed from the unemployment rolls due to expiration of unemployment benefits ?

    • Just remember that we started off 2013 with 8 million fewer jobs since 2009 when Obama came in and did his special magic to drive the economy down. Now, you will notice that "full time employment is 30 hrs a week, no longer 40! You will further notice that "retail" is indeed hiring but at maximum of 29 hours per week so these "jobs" don't do much beyond keep someone from starving to death and perhaps delaying loss of homes or apartments. But energy costs are higher as is food. These numbers are bogus because the number of people dropping out of the job market exceeds the number hired! People cannot live on jobs at 29 hours a week! The market on the other hand is held up because of pumping by the fed! The market knows that and so does the media. Besides, when the market was down the libs always said it was good for them!

    • Hey Un4tunet99%: Read your Constitution, All spending measures originate in the HOUSE. Which party has the majority there, hmmmm?

    • Does anybody know about a program for the unemployed? The employment agencies placed an unemployed individual to companies like a temporary worker - BUT the company who takes them doesn't pay for their salary.
      WHO PAYS THEIR SALARY? It's the taxpayers. Question is - do they still receive unemployment benefits on top of this job placement temporarily? It's a double whammy!!!

    • In February according to the Household Survey, the number of full-time jobs declined by 77K from 115,918 to 115,841. The offset: a jump in part-time workers which rose from 27,467 to 27,569, or 102K. Part-time jobs, for those who are unaware, are "jobs" only in the broadest of definitions."

      "But the most surprising development in February from a quality standpoint was that the number of multiple job-holders rose by a massive 340K, which just happens to be a record. One wonders: how many actual people got new jobs, as opposed to how many qualified single individuals ended up getting more than one job in February in order to boost that much needed weekly income to sustainable levels."

      In other words delusional libs and members of the intentionally uninformed class known as democrats and obamafawners, the job picture isn't at all hopeful! More people dropped out than were added by huge margins! This is no longer an economy so much as a grind!

    • Obama will keep hiring fed. employees until he gets unemployment rate down problem with that it raises the deficit.

    • real #14.9%

    • Isnt that the point? If all those dreadful unemployed would just quit looking, then the unemployment rate would be zero and we could elect Obama king for life.

    • This is great news nothing like that Evil Bush's 5.4 % high unemployment numbers when he was Pres. and gas prices where half what they are now.

    • As usual they will make a HUGE euphoric splash with such great Jobs Numbers and then quietly revise it couple weeks later to reflect THE REAL numbers . It happened so many times before....Nice to be a president for whom the entire state run media carries water....

    • Federal jobs just cost more to the taxpayer, while the private sector is closing their doors.

    • Very deceiving numbers teenagers 25.1% I'm thinking that is the real numbers. like teenagers aren't real people. Baaaa, baaaa ba ,baaaaa, baaaa get in line sheep time for Kool-Aid !

    • Like Sheila Jackson said if Obama was white we would be storming the White house

    • No president in the history of our country had it so good! All facts are concealed, unfavorable numbers -manipulated, scandals squashed , criticism -NOT PERMITTED ..unless one wants to be branded RACIST....or in case of non-existent Muslim bashing video "maker" arrested at night Stalin style and put away to prison without judge or a jury...
      Our country is going down to hell fast, the freedom is evaporating, free speech? What free speech???
      Constitution be damned and not a thing we can do about it just because First Black President with 0 experience, 0 concern for the country, 100% spiteful , hate mongering, class warfare inciting and REVENGE slogan for his second term promising was elected and reelected to our White House!

    • The fascist Obama has taken a financial crisis (housing crisis) and turned it into the Obama depression. He is flying the plane straight into the ground with the intent of redistributing whatever is left. Wake up America. Albert

    • If you'ere black and under 26 yrs old the number is something like 45%

    • If you're black and under 26 yrs old the number is like 45% , if you're in Chicago you have tow career choices, join a gang or flip burgers

    • Article today suggests 80% of New York high school graduates can't read , and what percentage actually graduate 50% , ...maybe with 50% dropping out? or is it a smaller number I wonder.

    • We have 20 million Americans who cannot find work. And now the President
      wants to give work permits to millions of illegal aliens.
      Google this: NUMBERSUSA .
      Once you are registered, go to the "action board"

    • For the low information voters don't get too excited. Employers CUT full-time employees and ADDED part-time employess. That is why the number is up.

    • Wall Street is raping this country and destroying job. If anyone believes this crap then...

    • You dot know what unique means, do you?

    • Now what do we do? That damn sequester has caused the media to report "good" news on the jobs front. Wait till Obama gets a hold of you guys.

    • 89,304,000 out of work, a remarkable accomplishment for the Emperor.

    • Ross Perot: They outsourced our good manufacturing jobs long ago.

    • We would be at 14% unemployment if we actually counted the unemployed... Simply ridiculous....


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    • I will never ever believe anything that comes out of o v o m i t ' s administration. They lie and cover up about everything. Why should anybody believe any of this BS.

    • NEVER are the self-employed who are actually out of work counted ANYWHERE. For one reason or another, but usually the fault of the economy! Add in the unemployed self-employed people and the overall unemployment would jump to 30%!

    • Let me get this right....this is an unemployment rate that doesn't count millions of the unemployed??

    • Pretty soon the number will be 0, they will just stop counting altogether.

    • Why they don't juxtapose the unemployment figure with the labor force participation rate and the % of those employed that are part time/seeking full time is mystifying.

    • These numbers will be revised down and next month Unemployment will back to 7.9%. Mark my words.

    • So now that the figures have been adjusted to 7.7%.... perhaps it is time to readjust to take into the consideration of the tens of millions that have been removed from the workforce. And the new figure is.......
      Oh yes never mind those folks, just move on!

    • So do the unemployment numbers include the states of CA and NY?

    • Well done President Obama

    • What they don't tell you is how many have dropped out of the job search, how many part time jobs when people would like to work fulltime and how many, i.e., college graduates & those 18 and over, who have never worked but are looking?

    • Stop calling Mexicans Hispanics.

    • how on earth would that help the economy. they are not hiring because there is no demand . if the business is not profitable no one has a job. hiring people that do not add to the bottom line will make the business less competitive and less likely to survive.

    • And where would our economy be if most of our entitlement beneficiaries were not sapping our fiscal resources because they were gainfully employed? Education, education, education is what is necessary to get us back on the track to real prosperity. Start teaching the old A, B, Cs and personal responsibility again. Reward those who attain real higher standards of applicable knowledge. Reward excellence of achievement. Stop denegrating those who have worked hard and long to achieve wealth.

    • +236000 jobs created -296000 that left the labor force = - 60000 net jobs. Therefore the 236000 jobs were "created"
      when 296000 left the labor force - keep in mind, 8.5 million less people are working now than when Obama took office !!

    • Wingers going ballistic because the President turned the economy around, despite the republicans.

      Having strokes!

      I bet they all collectively messed their pants when the numbers were announced.

    • Then election deniers, now we have economy deniers!

      S T U P I D S

    • Let us put this in perspective. The market is up for one reason and one reason only, the half trillion bernake and obama pumped into the economy by monetizing the borrowing and debt over the last 2 months. In short the value of the dollar supply is devalued by the same amount. The devaluation is a following indicator, the short term market gains are the leading indicator. They will equilize. And all we will have to show for it is a net loss in our standard of living, a ton more debt to pay off, and inflation that will cripple the purchasing power of the average US citizen.

      The correction is coming. The size of the work force is now at 2001 levels and buried in this puff peice is the cold hard reality, the claimed gains are more than offset by the number of people who left the labor market and the administration has made the bogus assumption that they should not be counted. They do not even consider the 200,000 plus jobs needed every month just to keep up with new entrants.

      Other anomilies of the obama regime is the standard of how E6 is calculated. To be counted as "employed" in the imaginary world that obama lives in an individual only has to work 1 hour during any month to be counted as employed.

      Who else is not counted? Non-working welfare recipients are not counted as unemployed. Of which obama has lowered that eligibily standards that resulted in the largest welfare scam in history. Also note that the average non-working welfare family now makes more than the average working family. According to obama this is all about "fairness."

      Also note the labor participation rates. Every single record for participation has been set by direct result of the policies of obama. Record low participation. The economy is still shrinking. But that does not fit the narrative, and like the author of this dribble explained: "Who cares?"

      The obama administrations policy is to create the biggest econmic bubble in history. It is all fake. Imaginary. And it will blow out, more likely sooner than later. Be warned, obama's senior economic team is comprised of people none-other than the idiots who brought you the housing boom and bust. The exact same people.

      If a foreign country had done to the US economy what obama has wrought, it would be considered an act of war.

    • So how many of these people who left the unemployment line joined the welfare line ? I have noticed a trend in these job reports that the number of people leaving the unemployment lines corresponds quite closely with the number of new welfare applicants. Stop shaving numbers and cherry picking data. Start the count from when obama took office and count the millions of jobs that were lost the first year and we still aren't where we were when he took office. No I am not a republican but I also don't wear rose colored glasses nor drink his koolaid.

    • And how many of these so called jobs are part time?
      Now all we need is 7 1/2 million more jobs back to make up for all that
      have been lost since Obama took Office?
      The good time are not here and the Sky is not faling YET?

    • @"Cracks Her Up" and stupid "First there were Obama worshipers": I guess you two fruits missed the number of people who "fell off" the unemployment roll due to their "benefits" expiring. We'll see what the "revised" numbers are on Wednesday of next week while all of you Obamazombies are still in bed, dreaming of all the goodies Obama's gonna throw at you. Pfft! Only the most incompetent boob believes Ostalin is "creating" jobs.

    • @Fook: Yes spending and collecting start in the House, but the House has passed budgets since 2010, but the Hairy "Hitler Youth" Reedy refuses to bring any budget up for a vote. A budget requires both houses of Congress and your mongrel, commie pres-uh-muh-dint to sign off on it. That hasn't happened since 2009, you Constitutional whiz kid! Why is that, stupid? Uh...because it keeps the "stimulus" as part of the budget. They renew it every year they give Ostalin a debt ceiling raise. You libtards are really goddamn stupid, but think you know it all. Funny, since none of you know schit. Idiot.

    • Half of the new jobs were part time and we lost 70K full time jobs. Most don't look below the BS headlines and dig for the real data, and that includes the WSJ. The participation rate also dropped, ergo the "drop" in unemployment. We are becoming a part-time nation, destroying our consumer based economy.

    • i,ve never written on one of these things before. i work for a living at an average job i'm a mechanic. at the shop were just keepin the lights on there is no money out here unemployment is around 11 percent and thats better than it was but not by much i've lost about 10,000.00 dollars a year for 4 years my wages are down and my taxes are up i'm under attack by my own goverment i'm close to retirerment but can't no money you say the ecnomy is getting better it's not. nobody on either side is listening i want the goverment out of my life i so i can enjoy my life in peace and quiet

    • Looks racist to me! and the horror of it! the children!!!! we need a quota and PRIORITY system for jobs, BEFORE any whites get hired we need to hire the minorities until there is equality in the unemployment numbers, and then kids need to get hired, then women!! and then white men, and only then!!! and then legal residents! and citizens.

    • The thing unseen by the unbiased media, are the 300,000 people that left the job market, driving the unemployment rate down to 7.7. So, if everyone out of work could be convinced to abandon searching for a job, we could get to a 0% unemployment rate... would that be a good thing, or not?

    • What Democrats don't want you to know about the jobs numbers:

      Number of Americans designated as "not in the labor force" in February was 89,304,000, a record high, up from 89,008,000 in January, according to the Department of Labor.

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