The Gavel: Speaker Pelosi optimistic on unemployment and economic recovery

This morning, the Department of Labor released unemployment numbers for July showing that 247,000 jobs were lost last month and the unemployment rate dropped to 9.4 percent, both better results than economists had anticipated:

The July job losses were the lowest of any month since last summer. Last week, the Commerce Department also reported better-than-expected news that the GDP has swung more than 5 percentage points in just three months — evidence that the economy is headed in the right direction:

Today’s better-than-expected news on job losses and a slight drop the unemployment rate is evidence that the recession is slowing and that our economic policies – such as the economic recovery act passed earlier this year — are beginning to take a positive effect.

Millions of Americans remain unemployed, and we must redouble our efforts on their behalf; unemployment figures are cold comfort to those grappling with daily survival.

Though we have a long way to go to rebuild the economy, we are headed in the right direction and beginning to see real results with our efforts to create good-paying jobs, reduce health care costs, and build a 21st century American economy.

Posted in Labor and American Jobs, Speaker Pelosi

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