Payroll employment rises by 222,000 in June; unemployment rate changes little at 4.4%

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15. Quoting myself from post #12,

Positive or negative spin, however, is not part of the Labor Department’s brief, Ms. Kosanovich said. She repeated a comment made by Kathleen Utgoff, a former Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner appointed by George W. Bush, that serves as the agency’s unofficial motto: When asked whether the glass is half full or half empty, the bureau’s response is, It’s an eight-ounce glass with four ounces of liquid.

You want people to have jobs. It's inevitable that "someone" will see this and, beating his chest with some tiny hands, announce, "look what I did!"

That happens.