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Creating hundreds of thousands of gub'mint crony jobs does NOT constitute a gain in employment.
Making up crap and repeating right wing lies does not make it fact.
Over 1.2 MILLION gub'mint jobs have been cut.
The unemployment rate is the fault of the Republican House.
From the CONSERVATIVE Wall Street Journal:
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Wall St. Journal: Unemployment Rate without Government Cuts – 7.1 Percent Instead of 8.1 Percent
Posted on May 18, 2012 |
Justin Lahart from the Wall Street Journal recently pointed out the impact of the public sector job cuts on the unemployment rate. Guess what? It’s bad. Really bad.
Lahart wrote, “The unemployment rate would be far lower if it hadn’t been for those cuts: If there were as many people working in government as there were in December 2008, the unemployment rate in April would have been 7.1%, not 8.1%.â€
An unemployment rate of 7.1 percent! Unemployment hasn’t been that low in nearly three and a half years.
These cuts to public sector jobs have been a double whammy for women. As we’ve noted, government job cuts have been driving women’s job losses in the recovery. But women are also more likely to rely on many public services than are men – from child care assistance to meals-on-wheels – so these losses hit many women twice.
And what’s worse – House Republicans recently passed a budget that slashes government spending even more. If they had their way, not only would further spending cuts lead to more public sector job loss, but programs that provide vital support for struggling families – programs like food stamps, child care assistance, and Medicaid – would all be slashed.
At a time when unemployment remains high and the economy is slowly recovering, one thing seems clear to me: we need jobs, not cuts to vital services.