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better, you hear from people who say, we re not quite feeling it yet. the big question on election day, kyra, whether people feel they have gotten everything back or still uncertain about the economy. all right, christine, thanks so much. nobody is happier about a sharp uptick in hiring than the guy who works in the oval office. we do expect to hear from him later this hour, but right now, let s go ahead and bring in athena jones. a lot of smiles over there today at the white house. good morning, kyra. well, you know, this month s job number, last month s job number is certainly an improvement over the number of jobs added in may and june but as much as christine romans just notied we shouldn t focus on more than one month s job report but we should be looking at the trends. the trends are good. this report shows while there is still work to be done, the economy is continuing to recover. they also highlight those 29 consecutive months of private sector job growth and the
finally, a job s report that beats expectations. sure, expectations were low, under 100,000, but look at this official net gain for july. 163,000. that s the most new jobs since february. the unemployment rate, meanwhile, a separate survey ticked up last month to 8.3%. christine romans watching this all-important gauge of economic vitality, shall we say. would you call the july numbers vital? i would say it s vital to the president s re-election prospects and vital to every single family in america who is trying to figure out if they can keep their job or get a job. yes, this is a really a important report. you gave the headline numbers. let me dig in a little bit. i took 40 pages of tables and graphs and put it in one graph to show you how it works. the private sector created 172,000 jobs, kyra. but the government is still a drag on overall job creation. 9,000 more government jobs lost. in the month, you have almost 500,000 government jobs that have been shed since february