So while 10,000 MORE private sector jobs were lost, how many public sector jabs were added??
That's an excellent question. It's quite possible public sector lost jobs in august, because lots of states are cutting budgets. Although congress passed a 28 billion dollar public union bailout bill a few weeks back, that probably won't save all the cut jobs by a long shot. I think we could see public employment basically flat in august. It would not surprise me to see it decline somewhat. We'll know in 2 days.