Are you worried about getting a new (or your first) job?

[Pah]

Quotes taken from My Way News

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. businesses added 96,000 jobs to payrolls in September, the government reported on Friday, a weaker-than-expected total that was expected to sharpen a presidential debate later in the day over the economy's direction.

The September job-creation total came in below Wall Street economists' forecasts for 148,000 new jobs. The department also revised down its estimate of August new jobs to 128,000 from 144,000 it reported a month ago.

"It is a disappointing number, it suggests the economy is still not growing particularly quickly," said economist David Sloan of 4Cast Ltd. in New York. The U.S. Federal Reserve has raised short-term interest rates three times this year -- from 46-year lows in June -- to 1.75 percent and analysts said the jobs report left room to keep raising them but not by much.

Labor also said that, according to preliminary estimates, the economy added about 236,000 more jobs than previously thought in the year ended March 2004, and it will incorporate the change into benchmark revisions issued in February.

After including the projected change, it appears that about 585,000 jobs have been lost since President Bush took office in January 2001.

Will you have a better chance of finding a job in the next four years if Bush is re-elected?

-pah

 

[Sunstone]

I worry about the next four years if Bush is re-elected. Should that happen, I expect a lackluster economy.