entire economy, and over the past two careers, my administration has been doing everything we can to help encourage more success stories like this. because it is small businesses that will power our growth and put our people back to work. this morning, we learned that in the month of september our economy gained 64,000 jobs in the private sector. july and august, private sector job numbers were revised upwards. so we've now seen nine straight months of private sector job growth. in all more than 850 now, private sector jobs gained this year, which is in sharp contrast to the almost 800,000 jobs that we were losing when i first took office. but that news is tempered by a net job loss in september which was fueled in large measure by the end of temporary census jobs and by layoffs in state and local governments. i should point out that these