Actually earlier today the news said that the downturn was partially due to the “unexpected” rise in first time unemployment cases, they went up to 471,000 +. So, yes, unexpectedly was definitely in there.
Could be all the census temp jobs drying up. Incidentally I went to the census.gov web site to get the numbers and got a “this connection untrusted” warning from Firefox. Go figure.
Ah, whew, thought the MSM was slipping.