AP sees "Hopeful Sign" in Jobs Numbers

 

WASHINGTON (AP) -- U.S. employers added 163,000 jobs in July, a hopeful sign after three months of sluggish hiring.

The Labor Department said Friday that the unemployment rate rose to 8.3 percent, from 8.2 percent in June.

Stronger job creation could help President Barack Obama's re-election hopes....

 

 

We would compare this hope-filled media treatment to the vicious coverage of George Bush when the unemployment rate was similar ... but it never got that high under his administration.  

In fact, for eight years it never went above 6.8 pct -- until Obama was elected.