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Boehner: 9.7 Percent Unemployment 'No Cause for Celebration'

GOP Leader: "A near ten-percent unemployment rate is completely unacceptable, and no amount of taxpayer-funded temporary Census workers can mask the pummeling America's employers are taking from Washington Democrats' job-killing agenda."

Contact: Michael Steel, Kevin Smith, 202-225-4000

WASHINGTON, April 2 /Standard Newswire/ -- House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) issued the following statement after the Department of Labor reported that the nation's unemployment rate stayed at 9.7 percent and the number of long-term unemployed -- those out of work for 27 weeks or longer -- now account for 44.1 percent of the unemployed, a new record:

    "A 9.7 percent unemployment rate is no cause for celebration, and any politician who takes a victory lap for it is out of touch with the struggles working families and small businesses asking 'where are the jobs?' are facing. 
     
    "Today's private-sector job gains are encouraging but not nearly what President Obama promised when he signed the trillion-dollar 'stimulus' into law last year with promises it would keep unemployment below eight percent and create jobs 'immediately.'  Our economy has lost more than three million jobs since then and unemployment remains near ten percent.
     
    "A near ten-percent unemployment rate is completely unacceptable, and no amount of taxpayer-funded temporary Census workers can mask the pummeling America's employers are taking from Washington Democrats' job-killing agenda.  The new health care law is already squeezing businesses with its job-killing tax increases and cost hikes. Entrepreneurs are still struggling to gain access to credit despite huge sums of taxpayer dollars being spent on permanent bailouts and 'stimulus' programs. 
     
    "Our economy will ultimately recover, but it will do so because of the hard work and entrepreneurship of the American people, not more wasteful Washington spending.  Only Republicans have proposed a no-cost jobs plan that will help small businesses get back on track and put people back to work."

NOTE: Economists have described this jobs report as "inflated" and "distorted" due to the temporary Census workers being hired by the federal government.


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