with what we have been seeing. if we look behind the headline numbers we have, we find the job losses last month were due to the expected end of the line for temporary census workers. but private sector hiring was a bit weaker than expected. this is likely to be a light trading day today. which is typical ahead of the three-day weekend. markets are closed on monday. with the fireworks going on behind me, let s check on the early numbers. do you industrials up 10. nasdaq is flat. the dow, by the way, is riding a streak of six straight losses. let s see if we can break that losing streak today. that would be nice. i think we would all like that. thanks, alison. california s budget crisis to take money out of the state s workers. arnold schwarzenegger says if a new budget is not reached soon, as many as 200,000 state workers will face pay cuts. their pay would be reduced to minimum wage, $7.25 an hour. state labor official says this is not a scare tactic.