- Unemployment rate stable at 9.1%
- Solid private sector job creation: 137k jobs
- Government sector contracting: 34k net job losses
- Temp workers, which are forward looking: +48k
- Household Survey job creations: +398k (though this includes part time)
- Growth in average hourly earnings: +1.9%
- Employment-Population ratio: improved by one tenth to 58.3
- Hours worked improved by one tenth to: 34.3 hours per week
No evidence we are in a recession