Hiring was lukewarm last month, with employers adding jobs but not enough to bring the unemployment rate down.
The economy added 80,000 jobs in June, the Labor Department reported Friday, barely an improvement from the 77,000 jobs added in May.
Meanwhile, the unemployment rate remained at 8.2%.
Economists surveyed by CNNMoney had expected to see employers add 95,000 jobs and the unemployment rate to remain unchanged.
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Okay what is each mans plans? Lay it out today. Put in simple terms and tell why it is not happening. Be specific.
ummm Romneys plans: He will tell the American people whatever they want to hear to get voted in and then he plans to fire, fire, fire and the fire some more people! Hows that for specific?
Romney stated the obvious not enough jobs no specifics. Stated in 4 years Obama has not done it. Congress has not put forth any of his jobs plans.
Obamas yet another jobs plan, 405 billion limiting itemized deductions for charitable contributions that can be taken indiviuals over $200,000. and Families over $250,000.
$41 billion from closing loopholes for oil and gas.
$18 billion requiring fund managers to pay taxes on certain income(bonuses?)
$3 billion from changing the tax treatment on corporate jets.
We all have seen obombas plan. How's that workin for ya? He said get rid of me if the economy isn't turned around in 3 years. Well five and a half trillion dollars later and NOTHING! You people need to wake up and realize that this guy is a complete failure of a President.
the people are awake jj...2012 appears to be the year checkmate...the godless will with have the white house for another 3 to 4 years...so when hallows ween and is the order of the day you choose the lesser of two evils...
@Jj-Because the congress has nothing to do with passing jobs bills. How is the wealthy tax cut serving us?
The house only passed that six months ago!!!! Obomba has been there for three n a half years! Ignorance appears to be running amuck here...
ill say it again. Five and a half TRILLION dollars later and we are no better off! God way to many morons in this world. The sky is blue. No it's not!!! Stupid stupid stupid
Correct it has been passed evry year (wealthy tax cuts)and where are the jobs from the tax cut? Most jobs have been from manufacturing. I notice when you have nothing to back up your posts, you resort to name calling. Do you ever wonder why no one wants to debate with you?
To your misspelling of our President name, it is President Obama.
To your he has been in there for 31/2 years: the congress has been in for over 2 of those years, what have they put forward, "it will fix itself ". What have they done or put forward?
Don't put the President Obama in the presidents chair and then put the tea party(the farthest right) in and expect to get something done. (gridlock) The republicans cannot even work with them.
People really need to quit blaming President Obama. Tell the corporations to bring back those millions of manufacturing jobs they sent overseas and there will be plenty of work for americans.
yeah, but those jobs would really help, as would what you suggest...
A mid-level executive was so frustrated at being passed over for promotion year after year, that, in frustration, he went to a brain-transplant center in the hope of raising his I.Q. 20 points.
After a battery of physical and psychological tests, the center's director told him that he was an acceptable candidate.
"That's great!" the executive said. "But I understand that this procedure can be really expensive."
"Yes, sir, it can," the director replied. "An ounce of accountant's brain for example, costs one thousand dollars; an ounce of an economist's brain costs two thousand; an ounce of a corporate president's is forty-five thousand. An ounce of a politician's brain is seventy-five thousand dollars."
"Seventy-five thousand dollars for an ounce of a politician's brain? Why on earth is that?"
"Do you have any idea," the director asked, "how many politicians we would have to kill?"
@Jj- if the middle class is hurting why can't they take back the first what the wealthy have lobbied for to make them wealthier. Deductions and tax cuts. They have it all, and the middle class does not. Someone has to pay, why not the wealthy, the middle class in all of this(wall street gluttony) has lost it all.
We in this great contry have a right to become rich and successful. While it appears alotta people have a right to get on the govt teet. Don't blame the rich for your failures obomba mama. We all are afforded the right to be whoever we want to be take responsibility for your own misgivings and don't blame the successful for that. But then again we live in a world where nothing no longer is anyone's fault. Duh
Yes we have the right, but not everyone has it and only having 1% with the wealth proves it is far and few that do. Because the real engines that make America go are the working people not the wealthy. They are the ones that have been legislating. When the wealthy are the ones whom decided to deregulate itself, cause the home bubble and the burst, then it is tiime for the middle class to say enough is enough and we refuse to take your leftovers any more. We refuse to have you eat your cake and we get the crumbs that fall off the table. We as Americans are paying for your failure to think ahead(of repealing Steagal Glass and putting your Pharma bill) (both deregulations) to let us try to pick up the pieces (taxes on the middle class and inventive ways to fund the wealthy)-(bailouts and high prices on meds).
Guess what we all work hard and we refuse to take it anymore. Republicans are non-existant to me anymore. And if President Obama is given the chance with a dem house and senate and fails, I will vote for another party or someone I believe has my countries best interest in view.
Little Billy wanted $100 badly and prayed for two weeks but nothing happened.
So he decided to write God a letter requesting the $100. When the postal authorities received the letter addressed to God, USA, they decided to send it to President Bush.
The President was so impressed, touched, and amused that he instructed his secretary to send Billy a $5.00 bill. President Bush thought this would appear to be a lot of money to a little boy.
Billy was delighted with the $5.00 and sat down to write a thank you note to God, which read:
Dear God,
Thank you very much for sending the money, however, I noticed that for some reason you had to send it through Washington D.C. and, as usual, those crooks deducted $95.00.
Thanks,
Billy
Pop quiz: name me any amount of previous presidents COMBINED that have spent more than this current blunder of a president. What no answer Obama mama? Chrissy? Answer: one man has managed to over spend the entire list of presidents COMBINED!!! With that ungodly amount of spending you would think he would have something to show for it. Now bring on the excuses...
@Jj- I do not have to combine any president, one president has spent more, fmr, President Bush 8.4 Trillion.He did not have any provisions to pay off his wars. If you look at all our past 4 how many have started wars and who paid off their wars? Answer Bush 1, Clinton paid it off, Bush 2, President Obama is still paying it off.
jj for obama its not about the money...
@Jj-Pop quiz. Who repealed the Steagal Glass Act which worked for 70 years? Who passed the Pharma Bill and made our health costs skyrocket?
@Obama Mama
Your comments are relevant and based on facts and I quite agree.
Since President Obama was sworn in, to the chagrin of many like minded who found it hard to reconcile with the 'event', GOP while in opposition or control had but one obsession. To unseat him. Oblivious to all else.
The Grand Party of NO turned into the Grand Party of Obstruction.
And Congress as a 'revered' body has failed the American public.
@saywhat thanks.
Thus the 13% or lower approval rate of congress. I believe that Jj has said he was part of the 1%.
I think now that the only part of the President Obama PPACA congress would repeal would be: them not having to wait at the doctors office and not going thru the healthcare exchange with the "little people".
@bobcat(iah) thank you for trying to defuse. bobcat the peace-maker. smiley face here.
@Obama Mama
good morning
Your comments are relevant and based on facts and I quite agree.
Since President Obama was sworn in, to the chagrin of many like minded who found it hard to reconcile with the 'event', GOP while in opposition or control had but one obsession. To unseat him. Oblivious to all else.
The Grand Party of NO turned into the Grand Party of Obstruction.
And Congress as a 'revered' body has failed the American public.
Hi@bobcat
Thanks for the relief.
Let me add that the mind set that has caused this country the most harm both in terms of a failed foreign policy, militarism and fiscal mismanagement is represented in the person of Romney.
I sincerely hope that after his reelection President Obama does away with compromises and asserts to the fullest the agenda of change he brought to the front when he first came to the fore.
There's a candidate running who is acceptable to the queen of bishyness?