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Washington Post.

I don't have the specific articles but we read each month's official jobs reviews in economic class throughout the year.

I also can't find the specific articles in the archive because WP makes you pay to search through archives I beleive but if you really want them I can figure something out.
I thought it was pretty big news though that the job numbers had rebounded before the term ended because they were trying to say that he was the first president to finish a term with fewer jobs than when he started right at election time but ended up not being able to put that on him because they rebounded to the preterm number by fall of 2004.

And you're right about economic statistics, I think they are hard to find because a lot of the articles are on news databases that change daily so the articles are either lost in archives or just forgotten about and removed since they aren't new.