The average U.S. work week was unchanged at 33.8 hours.
Maybe the USA needs a 35-hour week so that Americans are incited to work a bit more than their current lazy habits? In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
What I wanted to note though was this other discrepancy in NFP monthly statistic: Current Population Survey (CPS), published by BLS also, showed a loss of 250,000 jobs and a decrease in the Civilian labor force of 211k.
That is interesting beside the increasing statistical significance of counting "marginally attached" employment in the labor force who are "not counted as unemployed because they had not searched for work in the 4 weeks preceding the survey." Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.
