During a speech in Milwaukee today, President Bush said:
 

“We will continue to create the conditions for increased employment in America, so everybody can find a job. … Things are getting better.”  (President Bush, 10/3/03)

However, the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced this morning:
 

• 3.2 million private sector jobs have been lost around the country since President Bush took office.  

• Nationwide, the unemployment rate is currently 6.1 percent, a figure that does not account for the more nearly 400,000 discouraged people who abandoned job searches because they believed no jobs were available.  

• 5 million People are working part-time because they can't find full-time work.

• The number of long-term unemployed workers increased during the month of September by more than 150,000, for a total of 2.1 million people who have been unemployed six months or longer, the highest level since the last Bush Administration.