Economic Commentary Highlights...

• January’s employment report, one of the best in many years, found that the private sector added 257,000 jobs and the unemployment rate dropped to 8.3%.

• Jobs are being created in virtually every segment of the economy, except the government sector.

• If private sector job growth continues, we could see two million jobs created between April 2011 and March 2012.

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