September Jobs Report weaker than expected

[Peregrine]

I'm sure this is going to be a political football for both sides no matter how it came out, it looks not too bad, 96,000 jobs for the month, but not the 150,000 that were predicted.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,134850,00.html

[Swaggs]

The fact that more than 1/3 of the new jobs were government jobs will make Bucc happy.

[Jesse_Ewiak]

On a side note...

That Hyper-Accurate Household Survey

March: "Heritage concludes that the Household Survey is more right than its critics give it credit for, and far from losing jobs the U.S. economy has added 2.2 million jobs since the end in late 2001 of the short, shallow recession that greeeted President Bush when he took office.

[...]

By the way, you can't expect the press will take the time to read and digest the Heritage study - they will continue to pound the data from the Employer Survey (for as long as it shows bad news) and ignore the Household Survey, in order to portray the Bush Boom as a failure. It's your job to arm yourself with the truth and tell it to as many people you can, and encourage them to tell others."

-Bill Hobbs, from Bruce Bartlett, from every Bush-defending, tax-cut-loving conservative in America.

Today:

"This time there is no help for the Bushoids in the other survey, of households. They used to like to point to it as the more relevant, up-to-date source of inspiration for jobs springing from entrepreneurship, like mowing your neighbors' lawns cause your job has been out-sourced. But that number is much worse -- a net loss of over 200,000 jobs for September.">

-Maxspeak

If anybody in the Kerry campaign reads this blog, note also that as recently as June, the Bush campaign was premising their jobs record almost entirely on the household survey. By their preferred methods, the Bush economy either cost Americans 200,000 jobs last month, or has cost them nearly a million jobs over the past four years.

Pick your poison.