Wilson Touts New Job Numbers

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 3, 2006

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Wilson Touts New Job Numbers

Congressman Joe Wilson (SC-02), member of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, today made the following statement regarding the U.S. Department of Labor’s report that 92,000 jobs were created in October:

“Day after day and month after month, American families continue to benefit from Republican’s responsible economic policies - despite Democratic refusal to acknowledge our economy’s strength and the mainstream media’s continual failure to report its growth.

“Republicans are committed to maintaining a low-tax, pro-growth environment that will foster job creation and wage growth. Democrats, on the other hand, have publicly stated they will raise taxes on families and small businesses.

“American workers will not be fooled. They rejected Democrats’ tax-and-spend ways years ago and continue to oppose them today.”

Additional October Economic Statistics

? Revisions show an extra 139,000 payroll jobs were added in August and September

? The unemployment rate dropped to 4.4% - the lowest rate in 5 ? years

? More than 6.8 million payroll jobs have been added in the past 3 years

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