On Friday, the final jobs report before the midterm elections showed the national unemployment rate staying at 9.6 percent, 95,000 jobs being lost in September and 64,000 private sector jobs added to the rolls. So is this proof of a failed Obama economic agenda, or do nine months of modest private sector job growth show the job market is slowly coming back? What is the unemployment rate when factoring in workers who have quit looking for jobs or have settled for part-time positions? We ask Diana Furchtgott-Roth, former chief economist at the Department of Labor and current director of the Center for Employment Policy at the Hudson Institute.
