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Details on this as they come in. the u.s. economy and looking for work is getting a little tougher lately. the labor department reports job openings fell to 3.2 million in may. a drop of 100,000 from april. analysts say one reason is the feds stopped hiring census workers. president obama's approval rating on the economy also taking a huge hit. it fell seven points in the last month to 43%. that's a new low in this "the washington post" abc news poll. in that same survey, 51% of registered voters want take control of congress check on the president's policies. 43% say they want to keep the dem...

Considered small, we did whitehouse.gov. we're a small 28-person company. the magnitude of what we do and the people that we touch with what we do shows that we have such a high level of skills and training. >> i get that. but at the end of the day, listen, we can hire census workers. we can incentivize people all day. until we're creating work that solves the problem of our society, updating infrastructure or incentivizing solutions to our incredibly inefficient power grid, our incredibly inefficient and poorly run medical systems, i could go on all day. if i create a job just by giving leo m...

Treasury department and white house say this $.3 million jobs, hard to feel our quantified a saved jobs. it matters if you're a teacher or firefighter or a police officer that didn't get laid off but it's hard to feel when you want to start seeing people who are unemployed get off the payroll of the federal government and filing for unemployment claims and start working again. jon: a lot of those census workers are not working anymore, that was a big hire by the federal bottom. >> indeed, you're absolutely right, that pushed up the null and certainly when you look at that and say well, now tha...

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231,000 private sector jobs that were created in that month? he'll point to that as a sign of success and say we're on the right track. jon: yeah. and 60 some thousand of those jobs created were government jobs, right? basically one-fifth of the number government jobs, i suppose some of that might have to do with the census. >> reporter: it did. altogether there were 66,000 census workers hired, some other government workers were fired, so you had a net creation of 59,000 government jobs. by the way, jon, that is nowhere near as many government jobs as had been expected because the census depa...