69218 external_news 1312802075 1475893503 "Much more encouraging than a lot of people expected, and we saw a spike in manufacturing, retail manufacturing jobs, and health care. . . . Much, much greater than what we had expected. Everybody had been looking for doom and gloom. And the importance of which is that it kind of put a brake on this downward spiral of expectations, so it's just what we needed. Now, again, it doesn't get us to the amount of jobs that we need to lower the higher rate of unemployment, but, again, it indicates that there is strength in the economy, and that that's something that we can build on," said  Economics Professor Thomas "Danny" Boston when asked to assess the latest job report numbers on a CNN interview segment.  Source: CNN, August 5, 2011

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