From BLOOMBERG:
Employment in the U.S. rose in October for the first time in five months, a sign businesses may be starting to gain confidence in the prospects for a faster pace of growth.
Payrolls climbed 151,000, exceeding all estimates in a Bloomberg News survey of economists and following a revised 41,000 drop the prior month that was smaller than initially estimated, Labor Department figures showed today in Washington. Private payrolls expanded the most since April, while the jobless rate held at 9.6 percent…
The loss of more than 8 million jobs, as a result of the 18-month recession that ended in June 2009, fueled Americans’ discontent with the economy, a central issue in the Nov. 2 elections that gave Republicans a majority in the House of Representatives. Democrats lost seats in the Senate while retaining control…
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I was really disappointed by Sestaks’ loss, and believe a better turn out would have made the difference. And now look, the jobs report, (today’s) suggests that Obama’s efforts are starting to show some results. It’s a sad state we’re in, as an aggregate. Did you see the stuff in the right wing press on Obama’s visit to India. Stuff like costing the taxpayers 200 milion a day, that he’s dispatching 10% of the Navy to accompany him. Just tune in to Michelle Bachman (R-Minn) I’ve never heard such horrid, lying bullshit out of the mouths of so called adults in my life, granted I haven’t lived all that long. The right certainly went at the Kennedy’s whole hog.