U.S. unemployment figures were released today. The jobless rate didn’t move: 8.3 percent. Economy watchers on Twitter weighed in swiftly. Here’s a sample:<\/p>\n\n\n
Encouraging some jobs are being created, but unemployment remains far too high http:\/\/t.co\/5d4y7A2n<\/a><\/p>\n — Speaker John Boehner (@SpeakerBoehner) March 9, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n February jobless rate for whites dropped to 7.3% (down 0.1), but black unemployment rose to 14.1% (up 0.5). Hispanic at 10.7% (up 0.2)<\/p>\n — Sudeep Reddy (@Reddy) March 9, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n Why Didn't Unemployment Rate Drop? http:\/\/t.co\/NSU2FjV7<\/a><\/p>\n — Real Time Economics (@WSJecon) March 9, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n The Part-Time Economy (Redux) http:\/\/t.co\/zQPgCbMD<\/a><\/p>\n — zerohedge (@zerohedge) March 9, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n Although unemployment is unchanged @8<\/a>.3%, Obama will still say it's good news…I SAY: wasn't stimulus going to keep unemployment below 8%?<\/p>\n — Joyce Pemsley (@pecansdownsouth) March 9, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n 10.8%: the unemployment rate if labor force participation was the same as when Obama took office<\/p>\n — James Pethokoukis (@JimPethokoukis) March 9, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n And even if you factor out aging issue and normal cyclical LFP decline, jobless rate is 9.6%, via the CBO<\/p>\n — James Pethokoukis (@JimPethokoukis) March 9, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n 8.3% unemployment extends longest streak of 8.0%+ unemployment rate since Great Depression<\/p>\n — James Pethokoukis (@JimPethokoukis) March 9, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n Why a rising unemployment rate could mean a real recovery: http:\/\/t.co\/PKa5FYlW<\/a><\/p>\n — Ezra Klein (@ezraklein) March 9, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n Everyone's looking at the unemployment numbers like the guys on Apollo 13 looked at the CO2 reading. Just breathe normal.<\/p>\n — Nick Morgan (@NickBMorgan) March 9, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n Read more: http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2012\/03\/09\/10-tweets-unemployment-numbers\/<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/AP\/status\/178115477594320896 U.S. unemployment figures were released today. The jobless rate didn’t move: 8.3 percent. Economy watchers on Twitter weighed in swiftly. Here’s a sample: Encouraging some jobs are being created, but unemployment remains far too high http:\/\/t.co\/5d4y7A2n — Speaker John Boehner (@SpeakerBoehner) March 9, 2012 February jobless rate for whites dropped to 7.3% (down 0.1), … Continue reading Tweet round-up: Unemployment numbers<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anxiety"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}