<![CDATA[WSJ.com – U.S. Hiring Picks Up Steam, But Falls Short of Forecasts:
President Bush was promising 300,000 new jobs a month by last January. We’re still at just 146,000 new jobs a month, so we’re getting less than half our deficit spending’s worth. Unemployment “fell” to 5.2%, but, oh, there were 29,000 fewer jobs created in November and December than we thought.
The prevarication in the headline should embarrass the editors of the Journal.]]>
WSJ.com – U.S. Hiring Picks Up Steam, But Falls Short of ForecastsBut Falls Short of Forecasts
<![CDATA[WSJ.com – U.S. Hiring Picks Up Steam, But Falls Short of Forecasts: President Bush was promising 300,000 new jobs a month by last January. We’re still at just 146,000 new jobs a month, so we’re getting less than half our deficit spending’s worth. Unemployment “fell” to 5.2%, but, oh, there were 29,000 fewer jobs created […]