The Scary Thing Is That This Bad Jobs Report Wasn't Even About The Sequester

The March jobs report has come in very mediocre.

It'd be nice to blame the sequester (the automatic spending cuts that started in March) but it doesn't even appear to be about that.

A series of tweets from WaPo's Zachary Goldfarb points out that this really more likely to be about the expiry of the Payroll Tax Holiday (as the job losses fell in the retail sector) rather than the sequester (seeing as there was not a big decline in professional services).

So while retail fell 24K, that was not the case with professionals services.

When/if the sequester bites, then that's yet another area for a let down.