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Bully Pulpit

The term "bully pulpit" stems from President Theodore Roosevelt's reference to the White House as a "bully pulpit," meaning a terrific platform from which to persuasively advocate an agenda. Roosevelt often used the word "bully" as an adjective meaning superb/wonderful. The Bully Pulpit features news, reasoned discourse, opinion and some humor.

Friday, April 01, 2005

April Jobs: Lower Unemployment is No Joke

The Bureau of Labor Statistics today released monthly job numbers for March, showing the economy adding more than 100,000 new payroll jobs and lowering the unemployment rate to 5.2 percent. Despite higher oil prices, higher interest rates, and higher trade deficit, unemployment is lower - dropping by 0.2 percentage points. Nobody should doubt the health of the American workforce.

1 Comments:

Blogger Rosemary Welch said...

I really do not want to rain on your parade, but as long as the MSM does not understand economics-we are still going to have to fight to get our message out into the arena of ideas and the arena of FACTS. lol. Great blog you have here. Nice to meet you. God bless you.

Sunday, April 03, 2005 6:49:00 PM  

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