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Additional jobs. modest growth. not fabulous. here is a number that i never heard before that i thought was fascinating. so far this year we created 317,000 jobs by this time last year. created 582,000. better record last year. be interesting to see he what we get out of the markets tomorrow. that could make for a whole week of gains if it goes well. >> i would like it see thanks we all would. >> retirement. >> shepard: gerri willis, thank you. listen, those traffic light cameras are all a big scam. at&t least according to it a judge in ohio. this judge ruled the cameras violate due process. t...

Years, in four years we've lost 582,000 manufacturing jobs. 582,000. this -- we can't afford four more years like the last four years. we've got to get this economy going again. [applause] those in manufacturing say more certainly in the economy in terms of taxes and government spending are needed, bill. bill: what does president obama contend that he would do better if he's reelected? >> reporter: at the democratic national convention president obama said after a decade of decline the country created more than a half million manufacturing jobs in the past two and a half years, and he's prom...

To retract that statement. he did tell cnn he might have added a question mark if he were to do it again. republicans are using them as evidence of a stagnant economy. >> we want to return to full unemployment. what we have -- full employment. but we have seen 37 months in a row of private sector gains. it's far better than losing 100,000 a month as when george bush was in office. >> what is disappointing, the down tick on employment. >> part time work. so people that want full time jobs, taking lower pay, you can't support a family on part-time work. of course, we still have the sad fact that...

Progress. 31 consecutive months of private sector job growth. certainly we are not where we want to be. >> many analysts who combed through the unemployment data released attribute the decline to a big increase in part-time work. people looking for full-time jobs unable to find them and they are settling for part-time jobs. there were some 582,000 new part-time jobs created last month. the bureau of labor statistics categorizes the number as "part time for economic reasons." not exactly a vote of confidence in the state of the economy, shannon. >> shannon: all right, doug. a lot more on the nu...

Weird number that needs to be explained. the fact that the unemployment rate broke the 8% line. is not that big. one thing you do need to know. the number could of course be wrong. the household survey is, well, a survey of household. when means it is open to error. but the internals back it up. the drop in unemployment came because 800,000 people said they now had jobs. that now seems high. it's counting 582,000 who say they got part-time jobs. and that seems to happen around this time of year. part-time jobs increase by 579,000 in september 2010 and in by 483,000 in 2011. it might be seasona...