Average jobs added per month ticks up to 172,000 from 169,000 in last month's report.
The latest from the Bureau of Labor Statistics is here.
Unemployment in America has been above 7% since December 2008: 54 months. If Obama keeps this up he can beat the original Teflon president's string of 61 months of unemployment at 7% or above from December 1980 through December 1985.
