Job Growth Zero, Obama Policies Called 'Failure'

Friday, 02 Sep 2011 12:00 PM
By Martin Gould

President Barack Obama was hit with more devastating jobs news on Friday, less than a week before he gives his heavily touted speech to Congress on getting unemployment down.

No new net jobs were created in August according to Labor Department figures and the jobless rate remained the same at 9.1 percent.

At the same time a new Fox News polls showed three out of every five voters say they are disappointed with Obama’s handling of the jobs issue.

Republicans immediately jumped on the August figures, the first time since the end of World War II that no new jobs were created in a month. The president, though, made no comment as he helicoptered out of Washington for a Labor Day weekend at Camp David.

“Today’s disappointing unemployment report is further proof that President Obama has failed,â€