Vice President Biden predicted today that the economy will add between 100,000-200,000 jobs next month, and between 250,000-500,000 jobs per month in time thereafter.
Biden made his comments while campaigning for Mark Critz, the Democratic nominee in the May 18 special election for the House seat in Pennsylvania formerly held by the late Democratic Rep. John Murtha. “All in all we’re going to be creating somewhere between 100 and 200,000 jobs next month, I predict,” Biden said, according to the pool report from the Pittsburg Tribune-Review.
Biden added that he’s “got in trouble” for a previous job growth prediction in March.
“Even some in the White House said, ‘hey, don’t get ahead of yourself,’” said Biden. “Well I’m here to tell you some time in the next couple of months we’re going to be creating between 250,000 jobs a month and 500,000 jobs a month. Because I’m telling you something, folks. We caught a lot of bad breaks on the way down. We’re going to catch a few good breaks because of good planning on the way up.”
Eric Kleefeld
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