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Total nonfarm payroll employment changed little in July (-23,000), following an average monthly gain of 34,000 over the prior 12 months. In July, employment declined in local government education and retail trade. Employment continued to trend up in health care. (See table B-1.)ROG62 » Today, 12:43 pm » wrote: ↑ By my reading, there was positive private sector job growth but losses in government jobs that exceeded the private sector job growth. That's a good thing, not a bad thing. It takes something like 5-6 private sector jobs to pay for a single government job.