US Gains 157K Jobs; Jobless Rate Rises to 7.9%

U.S. employers added 157,000 jobs in January, and hiring was stronger over the past two years than previously thought, providing reassurance that the job market held steady even as economic growth sputtered. (Feb. 1)

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[pvtjamesryan3]

its all George Bush's fault......LOL

[afferch]

Real unemployment is easily above 20%. They intentionally manipulate the numbers.

[red lopez]

peoples, let me tell you something,the government created a lot of job but peoples aren't train for those type of jobs the government are offering like engineering jobs

[sirhorsechoker]

Well everyone at the company i work for is an "employee". So we don't go to those stats. But its such a joke company. I make a hundred and something a week. I don't think anybody that works there makes enough to get by. We're the type of scum to maybe rob somebody if were doin bad too... Sorry. Id be armed if i were you because i need your money...

[Loathomar]

Part time work data is available from the BLS too. Part time work for economic reason has dropped by 247,000 in the last year while total number of employed has increased by 1,714,000, meaning the number of full time employees have increased by ~2 million in the last 12 months. Though to put that into perspective we lost 8,736,000 from our job peak in Jan 08 to our job low in Feb 2010, and only gained 5.5M back by today and that don't account for our population growth.

[PurePressure999]

I think Ron Paul would've made a MUCH better president than Obama has been. Obama and his administration are a joke, in my opinion.

[PurePressure999]

I think the numbers are somewhat misleading. I'm a union journeyman electrician. I travel many places throughout my state doing work, and at all the places I do work -- like Best Buy distribution centers, for example -- they're only hiring temps and/or part-time employees.

So, if I'm not mistaking, temps and part-time employees show up as job growth -- even though they aren't working enough hours to pay the bills. Where are the extra jobs for the millions of illegals that Obama loves so much?

[the82spartans]

yep... they are spending thier dough on themselves thus they are not saving for thier children... the Gov'ment would tax it up anyway so what the hell.

[Eman Mcman]

The fact that people think Obama is any different than Bush is just staggering, considering Obama has expanded and maintained nearly every single policy Bush had.

Two sides of the same coin, at least Bush was cool and made me laugh.

[Loathomar]

1,194,000 more people employed then 4 year ago. There where 133,631,000 people employed in Jan 09 and 134,825,000 people employed in Jan 2013. This is not a increase from government jobs as the private sector jobs data show a job growth of the past 4 years of 1,913,000.