"We are still adding 175,000 to 200,000 jobs a month, and that's enough to stabilise the jobs market and keep unemployment falling," he said.
"If there had been no missteps – if they had gotten this guy in, gotten him stabilised – everyone would be saying 'great job'.
Most of the jobs created since employment stabilised at the end of 2009 have been in low-productivity trades in hotels, restaurants, office-cleaning and the like.
"Our immediate priorities are to stabilise the business and begin an urgent process to seek a suitable buyer which would also preserve jobs," said Deloitte partner Neville Kahn.
As a result, the world's largest computer company slashed jobs and pivoted to focus on data analysis and cloud computing in an effort to stabilise its business.
"Our immediate priorities are to stabilise the business, fully assess its financial position and begin an urgent process to seek a suitable buyer which would also preserve jobs," he said.
Two-thirds of the patients, stabilised on a regular daily heroin dose, find a job either in the open market or in state-subsidised schemes.
Jobs are being created, the housing sector has stabilised, and the US economy looks healthier than the euro zone.
The fame of the painting has stabilised the economy in the town, which had seen 300 jobs vanish in the economic downturn gripping Spain.
But things slowly began to change and the economy "stabilised" after a fashion, as tens of thousands of "offshore" factory jobs were created.
