Remember when August jobs came in at much lower than was expected and everyone was crowing about how bad the report was and the new recession we were sure to enter?

As it turns out (as it always is with employment data, it tends to be volatile over the short run but in the long run it tends to smoothe out) the growth for August was 192,000 jobs.

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/archives/empsit_09072012.pdf

August

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/empsit.pdf

On final revision.