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All those government layoffs and employee buyouts have hit the labor market.

From Marketplace, I'm Subri Beneshore in for David Brancaccio.

The U.S. economy gained 64,000 jobs in November, but it lost 105,000 in October.

The unemployment rate rose to 4.6%.

It was 4.4% in September and 4.2% a year ago.

David Kelly is Chief Global Strategist at JPMorgan Funds and joins us to talk about it. Good morning.

Good morning. So overall, doesn't sound great. What's your take here?

No, it's a pretty grinchy report. We've lost jobs in three out of the last seven months,

and the average job growth has been 17,000 jobs for a month, which is miserably low.

Now, that was partly because of the government, cutbacks in the government, but even the private sector,

we only saw 46,000 jobs on average created over the last seven months.

Speaking of government workers, we lost 162,000 government jobs in October. How serious is it

when such a huge chunk of workers is suddenly out of work? Well, we knew this was coming,

because what this really is, is back in the spring, a lot of federal workers took a buyout.

And the way the buyout worked is you got paid through the end of September.

So this is really a lot of workers who've not been actually in the office for many, many months.

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