Anything near or above 200,000 jobs is considered healthy and economists surveyed by CNNMoney predicted there would be 204,000 jobs gained in the month.
"It's a very disappointing report across the board," says Sung Sohn, an economics professor at California State University, Channel Islands. "The U.S economy is really buckling under the pressure of a global economic slowdown."
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