But I'm growing organically, cherry-picking my best contractors and getting them on the payroll, expanding poco a poco.
Democrats focussed on the fact that payrolls expanded at more than twice the rate they had in June, allaying fears that the recent slowdown in G.D.P. growth could herald a double-dip recession.
But on Friday, the market stumbled, with the Dow falling 1.26percentt, its biggest drop since October, after the Labor Department reported that payrolls expanded by only 1,000 jobs last month -- vastly fewer than the 150,000 expected by a consensus of economists.
Economists are looking for the government to report that non-farm payrolls expanded by 165,000 in August, keeping the unemployment rate steady at 4.3%.
The eagerly awaited monthly employment report showed that payrolls expanded by 114,000 in September, a pretty modest figure which isn't enough to keep up with the expansion of the labor force caused by population growth.
Non-farm payrolls expanded by 304,000 jobs in January, the most in 11 months and significantly more than the 165,000 gain forecast by economists.
September payrolls expanded in San Diego County (up 3,100) and the Inland Empire (1,900), while payrolls declined in Orange County (down 2,600) and Los Angeles County (400).
Payrolls expanded by a decent 163,000 in July, but the unemployment rate, which is calculated on the basis of a different survey, ticked up, going from 8.2percentto8.3percentr cent.
California's growth has slowed, as expected, since 2015, when payrolls expanded by 507,000, Bernick said, but he noted the state is in its 106th month of expansion, the second-longest employment expansion since World War II.
Payrolls expanded by 36,000 jobs in January, a sharp decline from the gains of recent months and well below the level economists had forecast.
Payrolls expanded by just a hundred and three thousand in December.
