Congressman Tom Price (R-GA) issued the following statement after the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the unemployment rate rose to 9.9% in April.

“Unemployment rising back to nearly 10 percent is yet another reminder that the Democrats’ agenda has not lived up to the promises they made to the American people,” said Congressman Price. “The President said 90 percent of the jobs created by the stimulus would be in the private sector, but that has clearly not happened with temporary Census jobs accounting for nearly a quarter of the net new jobs created last month. Temporary jobs with the Census are good news for those workers in the short-run, but their long-term outlook remains clouded by the Democrats’ job-killing agenda. With a new crop of college graduates just entering the workforce and 15 million Americans already unable to find a job, the robust private sector job growth we need clearly remains elusive under failed Democrat policies.

"The most tragic part of this story is that it did not have to be this way. While Democrats rushed through an $862 billion stimulus focused on growing government, Republicans offered better solutions that would have incentivized savings and investment and let the American people keep more of their hard-earned money.”