You know who likes lackluster economic growth? The rich.

Why the 1 percent have reason to cheer a disappointing jobs report

The 1 percent.
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The job creation numbers for September were a bucket of cold water in the face. Six years after the economy began recovering from the Great Recession, and we're still nowhere close to getting the job market back to full health.

Whatever tribal divisions may cut through American society, we can all at least agree that's bad, right?

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Jeff Spross

Jeff Spross was the economics and business correspondent at TheWeek.com. He was previously a reporter at ThinkProgress.