re: #514 RogueOne

I’m curious though if the jump in part-timers is very bad news or decent news. Looking at the rest of the report, including the downgrading of the June numbers, I’m betting it’s very bad news but I’m looking for a silver lining here!

There’s some good news:

Private payrolls actually created 17,000 jobs, but was offset by continued shrinkage in government. The number of people unemployed remained unchanged at 14 million.

So the private sector is growing, though very slowly. But the government payrolls are being shrunk, as part of the needing cuts in government spending.