WASHINGTON (AFP) - the President Barack Obama a new challenge to its economic program after dismal statistics on job creation and an increase in the unemployment rate has sent stocks plunging U.S..
The economy added a lean 54 000 new jobs last month, a quarter from February to April of the pace, while the unemployment rate edged up to 9.1%, the Ministry of labour figures showed Friday.
While the White House and economists cautioned that poor data were probably a monthly blip, they fueled allegations that the economic policies of the Obama are omitted, 18 months ahead of the next presidential election.
With the figures of employment for two previous month revised downward, the report confirms that economic growth has stagnated since the beginning of 2011, despite the efforts of the Government in power to a resumption of job creation.
The private sector should lead Governments to State and local slash spending, the economy added a wretch 83 000 posts, a third of the rate of the previous three months.
The mining sector has added 7,000 new jobs - driven by oil and mineral products - breaks but the largest manufacturing sector, which had expanded solidly in the first part of the year, lost 5,000.
During this time, the public sector at all levels cut 29,000 jobs.
"There were very little positive news, in this report" said Dean Baker of the Center for Economic and Policy Research. "There are signs more suggesting a slower growth than any acceleration."
Speaking in a car factory in Ohio saved by his Government, Obama was not directly cited new data, but said "rough terrain" still lay ahead.
"We still have a long way to go in this industry, but in our economy," he said workers at Chrysler Jeep plant.
His top economic adviser, Austan Goolsbee, acknowledged that the numbers were wrong.
"While the private sector has added more than 2.1 million jobs in the 15 months, the unemployment rate is excessively high and faster growth is needed to replace jobs lost in the downturn," Goolsbee said.
Approximately nine million jobs have been lost during the crisis.
But Goolsbee has warned "" it is important not to read too in any one monthly report.""
Yet, nearly 14 million people remain without a job more than a year after the end of the recession in the country; 6.2 million people are without work for more than six months.
9.1%, The unemployment rate in May was less than 9.6% a year earlier, but virtually unchanged since the beginning of 2011.
The data showed an average of 157,000 jobs were created each month in the first five months of 2011, much less that 200 000 economists say are necessary to reduce unemployment.
The data led some economists to lower their forecasts percent-plus once three for the growth of GDP in the second quarter to as little as 2%, to different sentence of weakness in the first quarter.
Ian Shepherdson of the economy of the high frequency said the impact of the disaster of earthquake Earth-Typhoon 11 March of the Japan the manufacturers - including vehicle manufacturers - and a jump in the price of oil have been partly responsible for.
"Overall, it's horrible," he said. "But we believe that it is largely a reaction - an exaggerated reaction we would say - to rising oil prices and a very real success for cars and tech by the earthquake in the Japan."
Republican leader Eric Cantor jumped on the news as evidence of misguided policies of the White House.
"It is incredible that despite warning signs and economic indicators, the Obama President and Democrats in Congress have still failed to provide a concrete plan to create jobs, reduce our debt or grow our economy", he said in a release published quickly.
And Republican Mitt Romney, who has jumped in the 2012 presidential race Thursday by challenging the economic balance of the Obama, tweeted that "" today unemployment numbers show we are going backwards, and this is the wrong direction for America.""
The data were likely to fuel the contentious debate between the White House and the Republicans on the measures that would sink more public spending.
The White House argues that the cuts require Republicans would worsen unemployment, spending cuts and layoffs at the Federal, State and local levels likely to eat in the gains from private hiring.
Briefing.com economist Jeffrey Rosen, cutting its forecast for second-quarter stagnation of the pace of 1.4%, severe coming months more informed, regardless of the case, because consumer spending will remain depressed.
There is "strong possibility" that payroll gains will remain below 100,000 for the next month or two, said.
"It did bodes for future revenues and expenditures," he said.
If there is no striking recovery, "our consumption of forecasts for the next few quarters will have to be revised lower to compensate lower income growth levels, for" keep a damper on the overall economy, said Rosen.
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