Biden Predicts 1.4 Million New Jobs by Years End

Vice President Joe Biden has optimistic projections for job growth:

Vice President Joseph Biden predicted Wednesday night that the United States will add between 700,000 and 1.4 million workers to the list of the employed by year's end -- and in the process mute the administration's critics.

In a sit-down interview with Charlie Rose, Biden touted the positive trends in recent economic news and painted the improving picture as an electoral boon to the Democratic Party. Asked, for instance, to assess the impact of the Tea Party in the upcoming 2010 congressional elections, the famously blunt vice president insisted that, as the job landscape improves, the anti-government movement will lose some momentum. If anything, he suggested, the movement would prove more problematic to the GOP than Democrats.

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