census jobs

The private sector created 67,000 jobs in August, more than the 40,000 gain economists had forecast. And job-loss totals for June and July were revised substantially downward. The jobless rate ticked up to 9.6% as more people started looking for jobs.

America is stuck in a job drought -- adding just 71,000 new private sector jobs while shedding 131,000 -- and that will put more pressure on the Fed to stimulate the slack economy. One puzzle: How to create jobs in a period of soaring productivity?