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  1. Nonfarm Payrolls +288,000, Unemployment Rate 6.1%; Voluntary Part-Time Employment +840,000; Full-Time Employment -523,000

    by , 07-03-2014 at 06:11 PM
    Initial Reaction

    On the surface, this appeared to be a very strong jobs report from both the household survey and establishment survey perspective.

    The establishment survey reported a gain of 288,000 jobs while the household survey sported a gain in employment of 407,000. In addition, May was revised up from +217,000 to + 224,000, and April revised up from +282,000 to +304,000.

    Digging deeper into the details, strength was entirely part-time (and ...