Another 288,000 jobs created last month, more than 1 2/3 the expected number of 173,000. It was also a month of increasing, though still modest-to-small, growth in Manufacturing jobs. The biggest increase was amongst Professional and business services with 123,000 new jobs. The previous month's numbers were also adjusted up by 29,000. 1.1 million jobs have been created in the last 8 months.
The decrease in the number of jobs since President Bush took office is now down to 1,227,000. (And let's just keep in mind that we're lucky it wasn't more with how hard 9/11 could have hit the economy.)
Can I assume John Kerry's site will be quickly updated to reflect the new number. Yeah right. He keeps using that 3 million job loss figure. It was never true to begin with and it certainly isn't true now.
