--only if you count payrolls. Counting all jobs including owners, self-employed, partners, we see 115,000 fewer jobs--HOUSEHOLD DATA
Summary table A. Household data, seasonally adjusted
[Numbers in thousands]
| Category | Aug. | June | July | Aug. | Change from: |
| 2012 | 2013 | 2013 | 2013 | July | |
| 2013- | |||||
| Aug. | |||||
| 2013 | |||||
| Employment status | |||||
| Civilian noninstitutional population | 243,566 | 245,552 | 245,756 | 245,959 | 203 |
| Civilian labor force | 154,647 | 155,835 | 155,798 | 155,486 | -312 |
| Participation rate | 63.5 | 63.5 | 63.4 | 63.2 | -0.2 |
| Employed | 142,164 | 144,058 | 144,285 | 144,170 | -115 |
| Employment-population ratio | 58.4 | 58.7 | 58.7 | 58.6 | -0.1 |
| Unemployed | 12,483 | 11,777 | 11,514 | 11,316 | -198 |
| Unemployment rate | 8.1 | 7.6 | 7.4 | 7.3 | -0.1 |
| Not in labor force | 88,919 | 89,717 | 89,957 | 90,473 | 516 |
--and over a half million leaving the workforce this month and a couple million over the past year. BLS numbers also show that these are folks that want work.:
When Obama has destroyed the last productive busines in America and there are no more people working the newspaper headline will read:
“EMPLOYMENT STEADY - NO JOBS LOST THIS MONTH”