Mitt Romney thinks his wife lacks "dignity"?

Mitt Romney said this past January that he thinks stay at home moms taking care of small children are lacking in dignity since they're not working real jobs.

Romney was talking about moms on welfare, but he might as well been talking about Martians, it doesn't matter - his point was that stay at home moms don't have real jobs, or at the very least their jobs aren't as good as the jobs of women working paid jobs in the workplace, and that stay at home moms don't have the same level of dignity of women who with paying jobs in the workplace.

Ouch.

What Mitt Romney said this past January is far worse than even the worst interpretation of what Hilary Rosen said this past week.

Hilary was questioning whether stay at home moms were intimately familiar with the ins and outs of the paying workplace. Mitt Romney was suggesting that women who stay at home taking care of their kids aren't working real jobs, and therefore don't have the dignity of women with "real" jobs.

Here's what Mitt Romney said, followed by the video.

"I said, for instance, that even if you have a child two years of age, you need to go to work... I want individuals to have the dignity of work."

In other words, if you're a mom at home taking care of a child two years of age, you're not "working," and you don't have "the dignity of work."

And here's the video via Chris Hayes, who unearthed the quote:

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Romney knows he's in trouble on this. You should read the convoluted answer non-answer he gave to the Huffington Post after he was confronted with his "dignity" quote from January.

I think Mitt Romney owes his wife, and every stay at home mom in the country, an apology for questioning their work and their dignity.

Not good econ figures, US added only 120,000 jobs last month

What sounded like good news a few days ago has turned out to be bad news. It's both under the number of incoming job seekers as well as well under the forecast.

U.S. payrolls rose far less than expected in March, keeping the door open for further monetary policy support from the Federal Reserve, even as the unemployment rate fell to a three-year low of 8.2 percent.

Employers added 120,000 jobs last month, the Labor Department said on Friday, the smallest increase since October.

Economists polled by Reuters had expected nonfarm employment to increase 203,000 and the unemployment rate to hold at 8.3 percent.

As Roubini tweeted today, the only reason the unemployment rate looks like this is because the participation rate dropped. Many workers have stopped looking.

Job growth again in March

This early (and unofficial) report is more good news on the US economy. It has to get a lot better in order to help clear out the excessively high unemployment numbers. Unlike the consistently ugly numbers during the Bush years, this is once again both growth and above the number of incoming job seekers. Between the jobs growth numbers and the rising Dow numbers, Obama is not too bad for a socialist who hates business. CNBC:

The private sector created 209,000 jobs in March, continuing the slow but steady rise in employment that has characterized the employment market for months.

Services again led the job creation, according to a report from ADP and Macroeconomic Advisors.

The service sector increased 164,000 in March, though the rate of job creation slowed a big from the upwardly revised 183,000 in February.

Jobless in Spain hits record high

Sadly, there is very little good news out of Spain these days. The jobless numbers are horrid (again) and the unemployment is sitting at 23.6% and over 50% for the younger generation. Now that the new government has announced its strict austerity plan, times are bound to get tougher. BBC News:

The number of Spanish jobseekers rose for the eighth month in a row in March to hit a record 4.75 million.

The Labour Ministry said the number of people filing for unemployment benefits rose by 38,769 with the services sector seeing the most jobs lost.

The jobless rate in Spain stood at 23.6% in February, according to EU figures released on Monday.