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.
I had forgotten about the 28B more in spending the Dem’s rammed through...hat tip./