White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said today’s unemployment figures are the best released in the last 22 months.
“The numbers today show that we continue to make much needed progress in getting this economy going again,” Gibbs told reporters in his morning gaggle. “We are clearly moving in the right direction.”
He said there will still be “bumps” ahead and credited the $787 billion economic stimulus plan with improvements to the unemployment statistics. Gibbs said President Obama is “pleased” the jobless claims were lower than expected but added that Obama believes any jobless claims are “too many.”
