Here there be jobs; the hopey-changey stuff works

Although unemployment holds at 9.7%, this is the best jobs news since 2007, as a net 162,000 new jobs were added last month.

Benen

Look at the graph. See where it starts to uptick? That's the passage of the stimulus plan. This has to drive conservatives nuts since it throws off the whole "where are the jobs?" meme. One does not dig out of a hole that size in 60 days. In fact, at the point where we switch presidential administrations, the graph becomes a near inverse.