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unemployment fell to 9%. but just 80,000 jobs were added last month. less than expected. 13.9 million people are still out of work. mark zandi is chief economist of moodys analytics and joins us now. mark, good morning. lets get -- obviously, the numbers just out. your first analysis, your first read on what this tells us. >> im encouraged by the numbers. as you point out, the 80,000 job game was on the light side. but if you look at the other elements of the report, hours worked, the ...

we begin with breaking news this hour. the headline is that unemployment fell to 9%. but just 80,000 jobs were added last month. less than expected. 13.9 million people are still out of work. mark zandi is chief economist of moodys analytics and joins us now. mark, good morning. lets get -- obviously, the numbers just out. your first analysis, your first read on what this tells us. >> im encouraged by the numbers. as you point out, the 80,000 job game was on the light side. but if you ...

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