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From: LindyBill	3/19/2012 2:16:19 AM
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Obama's playing games with the unemployment numbers. Mfg. Jobless Rate: Below National Avg. for 9 Mos. by Mark J. Perry In February, the jobless rate for manufacturing was 8.4% (not seasonally adjusted) compared to the 8.7% national rate for all industries (not seasonally adjusted). That marks the ninth consecutive month starting last June that the jobless rate for the manufacturing sector of the U.S. economy has been below the national jobless rate, and reverses a 32-month period from October 2008 to May 2011 when the manufacturing jobless rate was equal to or higher than the national average rate. The gap during that period was at its highest in April 2009 when the manufacturing jobless rate was almost 4 points higher (at 12.4%) than the national average rate of 8.6%. There has never been a comparable 9-month period going back to when the BLS started tracking jobless rates by industry that manufacturing unemployment was below the national average for that many consecutive months. As reported previously, U.S. manufacturing has been leading the recovery on many economic measures including job creation, output growth and profits.

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