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Marc Ambinder - Marc Ambinder is the White House correspondent for National Journal and a contributing editor at The Atlantic. More

Marc Ambinder is the White House correspondent for National Journal. He previously served as the politics editor, and is now a contributing editor, for The Atlantic, where he curated the influential Politics channel on TheAtlantic.com and contributed to the magazine. He was also a chief political consultant to CBS News. Earlier, at NJ's Hotline, Ambinder was the founding editor of "Hotline On Call," a pathbreaking political news blog. He also worked as a producer and reporter for the ABC News Political Unit and was one of the founders of ABC's "The Note." Born in New York City, raised in Central Florida, Ambinder is a 2001 graduate of Harvard and lives in Washington, D.C.
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10.0%

By Marc Ambinder

Dec 4 2009, 9:25 AM ET Comment

Don't expect too much celebrating from the White House today over news that the unemployment rate nudged down from 10.2% to 10.0%. For one thing, most of the decline can be attributed to a slightly lower labor force participation rate. For another, the White House has jumped the gun on trumpeting the appearance of green shoots before...when those shoots turned out to be bacterial outgrowths from the existing infection. Still, as a message multiplier, the day after the president's job's summit and the day the president travels to Allentown (are you sick of the Billy Joel references yet?), it's not bad. An administration official, reacting to the news, predicts "a long, bumpy road ahead. No time to be complacent." More, from our Business Channel.

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