Q3 growth rate 'not enough:' White House's Carney

WASHINGTON (MarketWatch)
The 2.5% annual growth rate in the third quarter is not enough and Congress must pass President Barak Obama's jobs plan to bring down unemployment, White House spokesman Jay Carney said Thursday.
The growth rate in the July-September quarter "may be better than it was the previous quarter, but it is not good enough,"
Carney said at the White House press briefing.
He noted that economists generally have concluded that a 2.5% growth is not enough to significantly lower employment.
Without the White House jobs plan, "the economic prognosis for next year is growth that is too slow to bring down unemployment," Carney said.