openings. what about the sectors? business information kinds of jobs, office jobs, lawyers, accountants, tech folks. 573,000 net new jobs there. for years health care has been growing so strongly. manufacturing down a little bit and that bears watching because this has been a decent year so far for manufacturing jobs. and that s been a big focus of the president. what i find interesting, fascinating, and con pounding though is why the president s approval rating overall and even his approval rating on the economy is not better. on the economy it s not tracking in line with where bill clinton, despite scandals was on the economy p when the economy was doing so well. even as the president talks about it all the time and we talk about how well the economy is doing. it could be because wages are not going gang gusters. we see 2.9% annual wage