Well, it's the Obama-Recovery™, stupid !
Also:
"In December, the increase in payrolls was revised up to 203,000 from an initial report of 200,000. And November payrolls were revised up to 157,000 from 100,000."
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If just the problems in the South/East of Europe (+Ireland) would go away, the US would now create 300K jobs per month, at least ...
Well, lets look at the real numbers (in thousands). A comparison between January of 2009 and January of 2012 is most instructive (since same month is involved, "seasonal adjustments" are unnecessary).
2009 2012 Change
Civilian noninstitutional population 234,739 242,269 7,530
Civilian Labor Force Level 153,445 153,485 40
Employed 140,436 139,944 - 492
Participation 59.8% 57.8% 2.0
TB, will you ever get over apologizing for Obama? Is it possible in your mind that
anything Obama could (has, or will) do could ever be wrong?