Still, what an absolute clunker of a report this was. The unemployment rate nudged up to 4.4 per cent, there was a net decline of 92,000 jobs and almost every sector was weak. Healthcare, which has been a job-creation mainstay, was dragged down by a strike that accounted for about a third of the job losses, but even adjusting for that numbers look terrible. There has now been no net job creation since May.