Washington, D.C. - Congressman Dave Loebsack today issued the following statement in response to the Department of Labor's announcement that the unemployment rate dropped slightly to 8.2 percent in March and 120,000 jobs were added.
"Numbers do not mean anything to Iowans who are still out of work. Today's report shows that any progress is tenuous at best and Congress still has a lot of work to do for there to be a meaningful recovery. The small steps that have been taken up to this point to get the economy heading in the right direction have provided only a small boost. Congress needs to come together and move forward with commonsense, bipartisan solutions in order to create jobs and boost the economy."
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