Well, we added some jobs last month for a change. Payroll employment increased by 162,000. That’s the good news. The bad news is that a lot of those jobs were for the Census and for temporary work. The unemployment rate is unchanged, and information technology and financial sector jobs continue to disappear.
We’re basically treading water, and that’s not good enough to improve the mood of the country. Still, it’s refreshing to get a positive jobs number. We need to keep piling those up, month after month. How’s the economy where you’re living?