Jon S. Corzine: “it is good news to have an increase in employment in America today. Everyone is pleased to see more jobs are coming into…”

“it is good news to have an increase in employment in America today. Everyone is pleased to see more jobs are coming into our economy and Democrats, as well as Republicans, are pleased to see more Americans are going to work. But that said, working men and women, and everyone, has to understand numbers of 1 month do not indicate a change in whether one assesses economic policy working for average Americans, for middle-class Americans, for moderate-income Americans, for those who are trying to make ends meet in our economy. These good numbers we would like to see continued. We would like to see more Americans going to work, but the American people need to understand this number, this 1-month number, in the context of a whole 38 months of development of economic policy in this country, is a record that I believe, and I think many people would believe, has put enormous stress on the American people. We are pleased with the job growth, but the fact is, we saw growth in the unemployed this month of about 184,000. We now have 8.4 million Americans unemployed in this economy. That is up substantially this month. We have also seen the unemployment rate tick up about one-tenth of a percent.”