STATEMENT FROM COMMERCE SECRETARY
DONALD L. EVANS ON TODAY’S
EMPLOYMENT REPORT
Employers Added 308,000 New Jobs In March

“The strongest job creation in four years shows that the Presidents tax relief efforts are furthering America’s economic recovery. The end of a three-year slide in manufacturing employment indicates that American manufacturing workers are now benefiting from the President’s pro-growth policies. The alternative would be job-destroying tax increases and more government spending. We’re pleased that over half a million people found jobs this year, but President Bush won’t be satisfied until every American seeking work finds it. The unemployment rate, at 5.7 percent, is well below its peak of 6.3 percent last June, and remains below the average of the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s.”