[DrPhil]

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The job market has been a rollercoaster this year.
In the beginning of 2011, hopes were high for a labor market turnaround: the economy added nearly 750,000 jobs in the first four months of the year, and the unemployment rate was down almost an entire percentage point from the end of 2010.
Then came the fifth month. Employment increased by only 25,000 jobs in May, the start of what would prove to be a summer of labor-market stagnation– a summer that ended with Bureau of Labor Statistics' data showing employment growth that was completely flat in August.

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