February 5th, 2010
08:44 AM ET
12 years ago
U.S. unemployment rate falls to 9.7 percent
Washington (CNN) - The unemployment rate in the United States fell to 9.7 percent in January, the Labor Department said Friday.
The nation's unemployment rate was 10 percent in December and November. The 10.2 percent unemployment rate for October was the highest in the United States since 1983.
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Wow... Thanks...
thats because so many are so discouraged they are no longer looking,
About time, I never thought I'd be happy to see 9.7 % unemployment rate. Lets keep it going down boy and girls.
There are jobs out there if you are willing to work for less untill something better comes around.
2010/2012 REAL Change is coming
Wonder how many of those are just people who's unemployment has run out?
The under-employed and folks that stopped looking for work also decrease as well.
Could it be that the economy is improving?
If so, that would be a blow to the Repugnicans that want everything that President Obama does to fix the mess they left the country with to fail!!!!
Imagine what it could be if the idiot in the White House created real jobs instead of phony government jobs. By the way you all have fun doing your taxes this year (I know a lot of CNN readers do not pay taxes) but for those of us that do, you will be surprised at how rich you are, in spite of what Obama told you and remember next year it gets worse, because the Bush tax cuts (remember the libs tell you they were only for the rich) expire this year and you can bet Obozo and the libertards are going to take more of our paychecks to give to their non working ,dope smoking, Oprah watching voter base.
You know that things are bad when the unemployment rate is 9.7% and it"s considered encouraging.
I suppose this the President's fault too. How could he allow the unemployment rate to decrease 🙁
Let me get this right... More citizens have lost their jobs and the unemployment rate drops??? Maybe this can be attributed to the 100,000's that have run out of unemployment security and no longer on the rolls?? I would estimate the true numbers are around 17% unemployed, not the understated 9.7 as the illustrious leadership would have us believe.
So when is President Obama going to get credit for this good news? CNN and the rest of the new media only point out the bad news and this is why people are angry because no body talks about all the good things President Obama have done since he been in office.
I blame all this angry on the news media reporting only the bad news regarding the economy.
Try again with that number! I'm still unemployed...
How can you say skewed metrics? How in the world did the unemployment number go down after 800,000 jobs were lost last month? Could it be that many of the unemployed are no longer counted? Out here in the real world we know the number is above 20 % and rising fast.
Don't think I want to believe these democrats in Washington who want to undermine the Supreme Court because they don't bow to Obama.
That number is false. It only represents active recipients of unempolyment. If you include people who's unemployment has expired, and those who plain gave up the number would prove to be well over 15%. Not to mention the people who are under empolyed. The true number is staggering. Way to manipulate the facts yet again for political gain white house. Your on a roll like never seen before.
Why does this number upset Republicans, because they want this Country to fail.
more lies from the Obama Administration. Unemployment did not drop, it grew, look at the jobs market, look at the businesses that closed, look at the unemployment claims. If you believe the Obama government you are as gulible and slow as a snail. Obama and his group will lie to get their agenda passed. It is time for all Americans to revolt against Obama and his pack of Liers and take back our country. These idiots works for us and they need to be fired. All Lies from Obama, Pelosi and Reid. They must go. Impeach Obama and fire the rest.
This is NOT a true figure!!!!!!
So good to see that change, but is not surprising how you don't hear the right side speaking about this great news...Cause they don't roll like that they are all for bad news...when it comes to the USA.
Your Rock Obama!!!
Male bovine dung. This report is what the White House says, not the impartial economists. Let's read the comments to see how gullable we are.
This coupled with last week's news that the economy performed at a much stronger than expected rate for the 4th quarter is a pretty good indication that the President's policies are working...
We should all be thankful for a president who has the intelligence and wisdom to listen to all the economic experts and push through the politically unpopular policies we had to have to see improvement now.
He brought us back from the brink...
Thanks Mr. President for a job well done..