Ohio Democratic Party Statement on January Jobs Report
Feb 3, 2012
COLUMBUS – Ohio Democratic Party Chairman Chris Redfern released the following statement on the January jobs report showing the economy added private sector jobs for the 23rd straight month, at 257,000 private sector jobs, and a chart, below, showing where we’ve come from and where we’re going:
“With today’s jobs reports showing more private sector job growth in January, we’ve now seen America’s businesses add jobs for 23 straight months. When President Obama took office, our economy was losing more than 700,000 jobs a month, the economy was spiraling of control and the economic security of millions of Ohioans and middle-class Americans was vanishing. Thanks to the vision and swift action President Obama, Senator Sherrod Brown and Democrats took to address the economic crisis, we are moving in the right direction.
“Over the past 23 months of private sector job growth, America’s businesses have added 3.7 million jobs, our auto industry was saved and continues growing throughout Ohio and America, and manufacturing is creating jobs for the first since the 1990s. But President Obama has done more than just address the immediate economic crisis – he appointed our own Rich Cordray as America’s first consumer watchdog to protect our economy from returning to the abusive Wall Street practices that led us into the worst recession in a generation, and he has laid a foundation for a stronger economy here in Ohio and across the country where we can’t allow such a collapse again.
“This is a make-or-break moment for middle class Ohioans, and we have a lot more to do if we’re going to continue the trend we’ve seen for the last two years. That’s why President Obama outlined a vision for an America built to last – a blueprint based on American manufacturing, American energy, skills for American workers and a renewal of the American values that made our nation’s middle class the envy of the world – values like fairness and opportunity.
“Mitt Romney, Josh Mandel and the Republicans in Washington don’t share this vision. They don’t agree that we should invest in our workers, our students or great American industries like carmakers and clean energy. Just as baffling, they don’t even admit that this reversal and recovery is happening.
“But these numbers do not lie. We were going down, now we’re going up. America was bleeding jobs, now we’re creating them. The fabric of our economy was collapsing, now it’s recovering. There is much more work to do, but January’s jobs report unquestionably shows that we are moving in the right direction.â€
