UPDATED 14:01 PM EST, February 1, 2013
President Barack Obama declared last June that "the private sector is doing fine." And President Ronald Reagan liked to tell audiences, "Government is not the solution to our problem, government is the problem." Two major economic reports this week seem to lend some new weight to both provocative assertions.
The government continued to shed jobs in the first month of 2013, while the private sector again posted solid — if not robust — gains, the Labor Department reported Friday.
