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Jeremy Siegel

Another Disappointing Labor Report; Obama to Introduce Jobs Bill - September 2, 2011

There are only a few bright spots in today's employment report of zero overall change in employment and a small 17k growth in private sector jobs, well below the 70k consensus. Household employment did jump 331k, but this just offsets a very negative figure in June. The labor Department did note that the strike at Verizon could have subtracted up to 45k jobs, which if added would give private sector job growth at 60k. »»

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