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Economy

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1. Link to today's ADP report of PRIVATE sector payrolls (just 54,000 added in August). And comparison between

Thu Sep 4, 2025, 08:26 PM

Thursday

BLS and ADP on private sector job growth month-by-month for last 2 years (post #11 in below thread), which have wide differences .

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143523753

See also https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143523753#post10 on ADP report generally, what it is (their payroll services cover about 20% of the private sector, and nobody seems to know how they extrapolate the other 80%. Oh I know there's great-sounding babble-speak on their website, but it doesn't answer the question).

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