{"id":518,"date":"2013-03-09T13:58:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-09T13:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/2013\/03\/09\/jobs-are-up-joblessness-down-wheres-the-love"},"modified":"2013-03-09T13:58:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-09T13:58:00","slug":"jobs-are-up-joblessness-down-wheres-the-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=518","title":{"rendered":"Jobs are up; joblessness down. Where’s the love?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The Labor Department put out some big numbers Friday.<\/p>\n

The economy added 236,000 private-sector jobs in February. The unemployment rate fell from 7.9 to 7.7 percent. Governments at all levels shed some jobs, which detracted a bit from the total number of jobs gained during the past month.<\/p>\n

But those who’ve been blasting the Obama administration because of its allegedly “failed economic policy” aren’t joining the chorus of praise for the positive turn in the economy.<\/p>\n

I would ask “why?” but I know the answer already. It’s politics. <\/p>\n

Past monthly reports have shown similar dips in the jobless rate, but the “loyal opposition” has been quick to say those prior declines were a result of people ending their job search. They’re despairing of ever finding a job, so they’ve quit looking, say the critics. Economists across the board, though, hailed the latest monthly jobs numbers as a sign of actual economic growth, suggesting that the recovery is accelerating.<\/p>\n

But the doomsayers aren’t about to sing those praises.<\/p>\n

I think I’ll say what many of them likely are thinking privately … but don’t dare say out loud: “Hey, we might have been wrong about Barack Obama’s strategy to rescue the nation from its 2008-09 economic free fall.”<\/p>\n\n

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The Labor Department put out some big numbers Friday. The economy added 236,000 private-sector jobs in February. The unemployment rate fell from 7.9 to 7.7 percent. Governments at all levels shed some jobs, which detracted a bit from the total number of jobs gained during the past month. But those who’ve been blasting the Obama … Continue reading Jobs are up; joblessness down. Where’s the love?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}