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Play, leisure and hospitality. we did not have job growth in construction. but there was a tickup in manufacturing. >> government jobs, we're talking state and local government jobs primarily, right, in terms of the jobs lost versus federal government jobs? >> that's exactly right. that's where we've seen big declines in employment. it was down i think 2,000 on the federal level which has been up around 5,000. it's the state and local areas we've seen big job cuts on a month to month basis. it's worse than it appears. in a normal economy, government is adding workers to payrolls to keep up wit...

9% from 8.8%, but i want you to forget that and i'm going to tell you why in just a moment. this is what i want you to look at, the number of jobs added. we've got all the way back to may of 2010, a year ago. take a look at that. we had a nice pop back in may but look what happened. that was after stimulus money ran out, that was after the census workers stopped working. we had a rough summer last year and then we started to see things happening. in february of this year, we started to get into those numbers that start to matter. and now in april, we had 244,000 net jobs created. that, by the ...