you can see it in the president s face today and on the one hand you want to celebrate, but you have this caution inside you because of the long-term unemployment. how do you balance the joy with the reality? i think, i mean you captured it correctly, i wouldn t call it the long-term chronic unemployment, i think the fact that we still have an unemployment problem, you can t have an unemploit rate of 9.9% without it being a problem, but what you can be happy about is that you re adding 290,000 jobs that, sure feels like a much better trajectory than when you were losing 290,000 jobs. you have all those people who disappeared, millions of them who became discouraged, how hard is that to sort of sell to the
jobs. thank you, bill halter. with almost 65,000 arkansans out of work, we need jobs too. thank you, thank you bill halter. you get the picture. who works at the center for american progress, the think tank in town she wrote this is outsoursd racism. the chairman of the democratic national committee said pull this ad, please. it s got to go. the tone is horrible. what if what if jobs had been outsourced to ireland and somebody an ad showing a bunch of drunks. my irish mother by the way, happy mother s day, my irish mother would be outraged and she should be. any stereotypes are out of bounds. it s a conservative group. they re called american jobs for kurt. they did have an operation in bangalore, but the ap looked that you cannot make a connection that american jobs went there. they did have an operation there. is that the tone you want in our politics right now? what is interesting, you see this happening in the primaries, is that good spots against a
unemploilt rate, but the total underemployment rate rose to 7.1, it s the third month in a row that it has actually increased, it s almost back to the all-time high of 7.4 back in october. so under the service numbers are not good. and one thing i would point out about the increase in jobs, 66,000 of those were actually a temporary sen tus workers. census workers. and there will be more of those next month and then they disappear next month so the question is does it last. a comparison to april 2010, versus april 1994, april 1994 was when the republicans caught the wave in the clinton administration poll. the unemployment rate now, 9.9%, voter dissatisfaction, 66%. back in april of 1994, un emplacement rate us 6.4, and i
polling standpoint is that to turn around that recession mentality of the voter to a growth mentality, to be able to get the consumer confidence up, you basically have to have six solid months of nothing but good economic news before they reach that point. that window has closed. one of the things that was right in terms of what the obama administration tried to do coming out of the state of the union message was saying that we re only going to talk about jobs and the economy, and then they talked about health care for 2 1/2 months, now they have the storm, they have the stock market, they have all these other things that are occurring, that is all going to muddy this up that much more, including what happens with the supreme court today. even if it goes well, it could get in the way of this economic message. it gets in the way of the economic message because it s not that focused on nothing but the economy. when you look at the economic numbers there was some more bad news in the
the unemployment rate, when obama took office, the unemployment rate was 7.6%, now it s 9.9% and going up, not something you like when you re president of the united states and you party as the majority in congress. are you satisfied with the direction of the country? a year ago 23% said yes, 29 now, a slight improvement, but dissatisfied, 2/3 of americans still say they are dissatisfied by the direction of the country. paul, i ll start with you because it is the democrats who have to defend on the ballot this november. if you look at those numbers, five months to election day, you re in a ditch. absolutely. that s terrible news for the democrats, it is good news economically, whether it will be too little too late, i don t know, 290,000 jobs is nothing to sneeze at. that s a good, solid month, it s a best month we have had in several years, but politically, the democrats are going to have to somewhere a lot of months back to back. but the other piece of this is are we moving in the