"Contradictory job reports rattle markets, some analysts," by Danielle DiMartino, The Dallas Morning News, reported that "Employers added just 57,000 jobs, far less than the 150,000 that economists had expected."
I did not google hard enough to get the names of the economists but I had read that many did in fact expect more jobs to be created. I believe that the adminstration itself set a goal of 200,000 a month last summer.
150k is the job rate in which we need to create in order to match the rate of growth. 200k is a pipe dream. I think perhaps something must've been taken out of context. Because anyone expecting 150k jobs a month rate of growth this early in the recovery is smoking some serious crack. Or they'er riding on that instant gratification train that all the kiddies like so much.