Philadelphia, PA - This morning, the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that Pennsylvania's unemployment rate climbed .4 percent to
5.8 percent as another 6,000 Pennsylvanians lost their jobs in August alone. These job losses happened before the current economic crisis - a
crisis brought on by eight years of reckless and failed policies that Senator McCain has pledged to continue.
Senator Barack Obama made the following statement:
'Today, we learned that another 6,000 Pennsylvanians lost their jobs last month. Only someone as out of touch as my opponent could say that 'the fundamentals of the economy are strong' at a time when so many families are struggling. Amid the greatest economic crisis of our time,
we desperately need to change the way Washington and Wall Street work so that middle class families aren't left to fend for themselves while CEOs get tax breaks and golden parachutes. We can't afford four more years of the Bush-McCain economic policies that led our economy into this mess - we need to change direction and start putting America's jobs and America's workers first.'
The report from the Federal Bureau of Labor Statistics is available online HERE .
