Bloomberg details:
Employment fell in June for the first time this year, reflecting a drop in federal census workers and a smaller-than-forecast gain in private hiring.Unemployment / Underemployment Rates
Payrolls declined by 125,000 last month as the government cut 225,000 temporary workers conducting the 2010 census, Labor Department figures in Washington showed today. Economists projected a decline of 130,000 payrolls, according to the median forecast in a Bloomberg News survey. Employment at companies rose 83,000. The jobless rate fell to 9.5 percent from 9.7 percent as the labor force shrank.
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Change in Household Survey (note the HUGE drop in labor force participation)
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Hours Worked per Person (this took some work with the limited data the BLS now releases)
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Source: BLS
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