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I just read this on President Obama's Twitter feed:

6/04/10 @ 12:21 PM: BarackObama: There is no doubt that today's job numbers show another month of private sector job growth. We are not going back--we are moving forward.

Just this morning, I read this:

Hiring by U.S. private employers slowed sharply in May, a setback for the economy's recovery, even as temporary census hiring pushed overall payrolls growth to its fastest pace in 10 years.

Nonfarm payrolls rose by 431,000 jobs on the surge in government hiring but private employment, a barometer of underlying labor market strength, climbed just 41,000, the Labor Department said on Friday.

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Last month, the government hired 411,000 workers for the decennial population count, the dominant factor behind the biggest increase in payrolls since March 2000.

It was the fifth monthly increase in employment. The report also showed the unemployment rate dropped to 9.7 percent from 9.9 percent in April, although the decrease reflected workers leaving the jobs market.

Markets had expected nonfarm payrolls to rise 513,000, with the jobless rate dipping to 9.8 percent. [link]

I wonder if the numbers will be re-tooled again to show that, in fact, there was even more job growth than projected!