Private sector jobs are up! But that's not the whole story...
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Today’s Employment Situation Report showed that net nonfarm payrolls declined 95,000 while private nonfarm payrolls added just 64,000 and the unemployment rate stayed flat at 9.6%.
It's important to note that private sector jobs appear very weak increasing only .06% since last month (far slower than the rate of increase of the civilian workforce) and remaining a whopping 6.58% below the peak level of employment seen in December 2007 though, on a year-over-year basis, private jobs showed a second notable increase.
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