Somebody please get Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s head out of the washing machine because it is clearly in the spin cycle! You know, that unbalanced spin cycle where the washing machine is shaking back and forth.
DWS has gone nut-so trying to suggest that the unemployment rate hasn’t gone up under Obama. Seriously:
Ed Morrissey at HotAir did the hard work on a few statistics to contradict the DNC Chair:
- Jobless rate in January 2009: 7.8%. Jobless rate in November 2011: 8.6%.
- Number of employed in January 2009, in thousands: 133,563. In November 2011: 131,708
- Civilian participation rate in January 2009: 65.7%. In November 2011: 64.0%
- Unemployment level in January 2009, in thousands: 11,984. In November 2011: 13,303
- Number of people not in labor force, January 2009, in thousands: 80,554. In November 2011: 86,558
I think what DWS is trying and failing hard at doing is to reclaim the narrative that unemployment has gone way up under Obama and she’s trying to capitalize on the latest drop to 8.6% to do that. But we know that the drop to 8.6% had more to do with people leaving the work force than it did with actual growth.
Besides, what’s she gonna do when it goes back up after Christmas?
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