What is your expectation for tomorrow's job report?

[Liberal_in_LA]

Poll question: What is your expectation for tomorrow's job report?

Job creation/loss numbers for March to be reported tomorrow (Friday). What's your guess?

[ixion]

1. It will be the typical spin framing: They'll announce a gain

and then revise it downwards when no one is looking.

[Hosnon]

3. And the failure to create a million jobs will send DUers into a tizzy - like clockwork. nt.

[DrDan]

2. I think flat . . . that would be a positive sign imo

[Hosnon]

6. I agree. I think we'll see modest gains, somewhere around 100,000. Which will be good news.

The trend continues to be up and we have started creating jobs.

[Burma Jones]

4. I think it will make for a Good Friday

[AngryAmish]

5. I suspect some people will be unemployed.

[CTyankee]

7. small job growth. RIGHT WING SPIN: it's because of the hiring of all those census workers!

Wait for it...you'll see. I have already heard it from one right winger...

[Llewlladdwr]

9. Are you suggesting ...

that hiring 800,000 census workers ISN'T going to affect unemployment statistics?

[CTyankee]

12. Is that how many were hired?

No, I'm sure it has some effect but the right wing just wants to put down the whole stimulus plan of the Obama administration. THAT's what my point is here...

[Llewlladdwr]

13. Not the entire 800,000 yet.

But that's the number that will eventually be hired. At least according to my spouse, who'll be starting with them in a couple of weeks.

The really bad part is that the job only lasts a few months. So any gains we see in employment due to census workers being hired are going to be reversed...just about in time for the mid-terms. :(

[Tuesday Afternoon]

8. I expect them to report a small gain....whether that is true or not is

a different question.

[sabra]

10. Goldman Trims March US Payrolls Forecast to 200,000

http://www.cnbc.com/id/36134408

Goldman Sachs lowered its forecast for the March U.S. payrolls report to a gain of 200,000 jobs from its previous expectation of a 275,000 rise, Edward McKelvey, an economist with the firm, said Thursday.

Friday, is seen as the biggest event on the monthly calendar of U.S. economic data and as the most comprehensive jobs reading because it includes both private and public sector employment.

Economists expect a rise of 190,000 in March payrolls, according to the median of responses in a Reuters poll, following a 36,000 drop in February.

Before changing their forecast, Goldman had said in a research report there were downside risks to their projection.

[Liberal_in_LA]

14. We will know in 12 hours

[Johonny]

11. pain

as Mr T. would say.

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

15. census hires=some gains