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February 5, 2012 12:57 AM EST
The big picture is that the June/July jobs report was disappointing. The revisions to June were just as negative as the misses for July. The June jobs number was knocked down to -221,000 from -125,000. That downward revision of nearly 100,000 jobs was due to the government revising down 42,000 more jobs and the rest coming from the private sector. July reported job losses of 131,000, far worse than the estimate for -65,000. The census workers ... full story >>