Unemployment Steady at 8.3 Percent, but Job Market Improving

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simply cut out saturday delivery, hire more part-time personnel, eliminate half of the top ranked personnel, contract out more truck routes(city to city) fly more mail from sectional centers to sectional centers. THIS would be a start for better more productive service.........

bizzibodi of TN 3:34AM March 22, 2012

Somebody is not telling the truth. With 200,000 new jobs in February, HOW did the US have a 229 BILLION deficit for the month. A new record, I looked up the US revenue for the month of February. A big increase of 113,000 thousand dollars. Are you telling me the new 200,000 people in those new jobs only paid about 2 dollars in taxes. Some body is trying to blow smoke up our @$$.

PB of AK 3:59PM March 13, 2012

I would not tell, or believe any of this warble. People in my age group, 55 and above (from Northern MI) know it is pure cooking the numbers. Some of us have been out of employment for going on 4 years, retrained as you say and are still "LOOKING!" with little or no response back!! Please do not tell us about moving or more freaking "retraining" when discrimination is rampant for our age group!!!! The dirty secret is, the TOTAL unemployed is more in the neighborhood of 40 Million PLUS!!! And please do not insult us with the 227,000 jobs per month gain and it will take 5 years to get to full employment however you NITWITS gage it!!!! You do the math, and see what you come up with. You have no idea the daily struggle for ANYONE UNEMPLOYED!! There should be positions for ALL who want to work their trade, career, etc., and forced poverty at 60 and above is not a SOLUTION!!!!! Your appearance on C-Span made me do nothing but TURN IT OFF as you clearly have no preponderance of the growing segment of our population "LEFT BEHIND!" Nothing but a smokescreen Miss, you have reported nothing we do not know!!!

Perci57 of MI 8:48AM March 10, 2012

Have to love the Pub response to the improving economy. First it was, Obama's economic policies are not working, then it was, they are not working fast enough, now they say, despite Obama's policies the American people are improving the economy. If you're going to give Obama all the blame for the economy when it was bad, do we not have to give him credit when it improves? The Pubs worst nightmare scenario for the economy is if it gets better, so they are hoping, praying for an economic collaspe. They are in the unenviable position of betting against America.

bing of AL 7:05PM March 09, 2012

Job market improving yes, but barely.
Adding 227,000 new jobs is fine, but that doesn't cover population growth and college graduates every month. Moreover, there are 23 million total unemployed.
The employment news gets the coverage, yet the truth about the numbers are hidden.

NeedsVacation of FL 10:30AM March 09, 2012