The monthly jobs report has been released, and the White House took the opportunity to tout jobs added:
Our businesses have added 10.6 million jobs over 56 straight months of growth—extending the longest streak on record. pic.twitter.com/4hXxKM8Jzl
— White House Archived (@ObamaWhiteHouse) November 7, 2014
Not mentioned are how many of those jobs might have once been full time that have been broken down into “new” part time positions, or that the number of people not in the labor force remains incredibly high:
@WhiteHouse Most jobs are casual status or part time
— Dan Fitz (@mrf202f) November 7, 2014
https://twitter.com/Trent_Hill/status/530746924639744001
@WhiteHouse And labor participation continues to fall off the #ObamaCliff pic.twitter.com/lbJMwDcbTf
— FreedomTex ?? (@freedomtex) November 7, 2014
https://twitter.com/ciecko/status/530739878552952832
@WhiteHouse The labor participation rate is still hovering at 1977-78 levels. Your spin is beyond lame. http://t.co/BrlCwtadic
— CLA (@ConservativeLA) November 7, 2014
@WhiteHouse should the number of illegals allowed to stay be tied to the amount of unemployment we have in the United States
— snake eyes (@johnmiller754) November 7, 2014
.@WhiteHouse Orwellian propaganda, 6 years of it. Retire early and let senile Joe finish it out.
— Scorpio800 (@Scorpio2261) November 7, 2014
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As Obama reminded everyone before the election, his policies were on the ballot. If the economy is chugging along like the White House says, how can they explain what happened on Tuesday?
@WhiteHouse And that's why every Dem running for office avoided you like Ebola.
— Joe Conkle (@JoeConkle) November 7, 2014
@WhiteHouse So why did Democrats decide to RUN AWAY from the President's success? Idiots. No wonder you got clobbered.
— Defund and Disarm the cops – Fund our communities (@SuperSpacedad) November 7, 2014
Editor’s note: This post has been updated to include an additional tweet.
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