Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20100207:19:33:00
>> i'm not sure. one of the reasons is the official data on unemployment is a sample, and it fluctuates, and as we observed in the january report, it literally took it seriously as to the exact numbers. there are 784,000 job increase in january. now, that didn't happen. so what we can expect is a backing in february. i think we're going to stay at approximately the 9% to 10% level for a goodly part of the rest of the year with the sole exception of that period when they start to hire very large number of census workers. and that's going to have some positive effect, but it's very difficult to ...