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Numbers. is that how to explain 36,000 jobs created by 9% unemployment rate? >> that's one of the things. the official government is bad at capturing new firm employment. we saw a doubling of ipos in the fourth quarter and that's just harbinger of new hiring going forward by new firms. the other issue is weather. 886,000 workers did not show up for work the week the survey was taken. the bulk of the losses in the report came in construction and in transportation jobs. atlanta airport, the busiest in the world, shut down. >> right. >> all those service personnel that service the jobs did not sh...

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Working part-time or working kind of a contract job or something and it's not captured overall in the numbers, is that how we can explain only 36,000 jobs but a 9% unemployment rate? >> that's part of the explanation. there's no question that one of the things that the bls data is very bad at, the official government data, is capturing shifts in small business employment and particularly new firm employment. we saw a doubling of ipos in the fourth quarter and that's just a harbinger of new hiring going forward by firms. the other issue is weather. 886,000 workers did not show up for work the w...