New jobs figures which have the unemployment rate ticking up to 7.9 percent show the US economy at a “virtual standstill” just four days before the election, Republican nominee Mitt Romney said Friday.
“Today’s increase in the unemployment rate is a sad reminder that the economy is at a virtual standstill,” Romney said of the final jobless report before Tuesday’s election, adding that the rate is higher than it was when President Barack Obama took office in early 2009.
Romney: US economy at 'virtual standstill'
