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Economy

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U.S. Adds 227,000 Jobs In Feb.; Jobless Rate 8.3 Pct

March 9th, 2012 8:52 pm Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States added 227,000 jobs in February in the latest display of the economic recovery’s surprising breadth and brawn. The country has put together the strongest three months of pure job growth since the Great Recession.

The unemployment rate stayed at 8.3 percent. It was the first time in six months it didn’t fall, and that was because a half-million Americans, perhaps finally seeing hope in the economy, started looking for work.

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  • W.MichaelKeller

    The economy is moving slowly upward despite the efforts of the Republican’s in the Senate and House of Rep’s. I am sure this totally displeases them to see that the American people are succeeding despite their efforts to be negative on every thing. The current US government at least is doing some thing while the four make believe R candidates for the R nomination are only critical and come up with no real solution to all of our economic solutions.

  • CaptainZ

    I don’t see any jobs that are being created paying what you cite. I travel a lot and all the job creation I am seeing minimum wage and thirty or less hours, no benefits and Insurance. This type of hiring does not get people off government assistance and can hardy count as no longer unemployed. Under paid, counting on taxpayers for support and medical coverage is partially Unemployed. Large corporations everywhere I see are leveraging taxpayers to get work done at cut rates.

  • lae9909

    great news for Obama

  • bmerbob

    All due respect, I don’t believe one person can cover enough ground to challenge these figures nationwide. These are the same measures that have been used. When they were worse, the GOP was fine with using them against the president. When they start to improve, they are invalid. What a game we play.