saw the jobs number ons friday and they were huge. the president pointed out that the predictions suggested that it was going to be 150,000 less jobs created than the 310,000 roughly that were created in december. who better to break it down than charles payne. good morning. where did the number come from? this is the most amazing story really of the week. not only is it over 300,000 jobs created in the month of december, the best december since 1998. over 400,000 people came back into the labor force. you have to understand what s really critical about this. these are people who had given up on the idea of working again. 92,000 high school grads came back into the labor force.