Private-sector industries that reported losses in February included construction (-13,000 jobs); other services (-6,000); and information (-1,000). The public sector dropped 6,000 jobs over the month.

Get more details in the full BLS Employment Situation Summary: http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm
*A quick technical note: All employment numbers used in this post are seasonally adjusted. The normal seasonal employment change between January and February would be 624,000; the actual increase totaled 851,000 jobs over the month, so there was a seasonally adjusted gain of 227,000. Check out our recent post on seasonal adjustment for more information .
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