Politico reports:

The nation’s economy added 431,000 jobs in the month of May, and the unemployment rate dipped to 9.7 percent, the government reported Friday. That’s less job growth than many expected and will not provide a boost to the Obama administration, which has been struggling to demonstrate that its economic policies are helping to ease the nation’s epic unemployment problem.The government said that 411,000 of the jobs created in May were temporary positions with the once-a-decade U.S. census and not the kind of employment that can drive a sustained economic recovery. That meant that the overall private sector employment growth for the month was anemic — up by just 41,000.

First, 411,000 people hired for the census in one month? Good grief. I suppose it takes a lot of people to run the annoying ads, notify you by letter that the census is coming, and then send the census.

This is the Obama economic policy: hire many government workers, do little to help and much to hinder the private sector, and rely on the PR spin machine to convince everyone that Obama ended the recession.