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first as we head here into the labor day weekend with a brutal report on the job market. basically, it has come to a grinding halt. the unemployment rate for august didn t budge an inch. here you have the number. it is still sitting at 9.1%. the net number here, that s the important part. the net number of jobs created in august. zero, none, goose egg. private employers did add 17,000 jobs last month. but do the math. government eliminated 17,000. so the net change is zero. this really is a once in a blue moon event. if you think about it. the last time the bottom line on jobs was zero was all the way back in february of 1945. 45. that s before the baby boomers were even born. the weakest jobs report in almost a year comes amid consumers wavering confidence in the economy. we ll been following that jumpy volatile stock market. on the heels of the big debt ceiling fight and washington s credit downgrade. you throw all that together, then you look ahead here. we re less than