I'm guessing the numbers were actually worse than reported for August.
The last person was fired for reporting piss-poor job numbers. The person who took their place knew this and doesn't want to be fire so I'm betting they "adjusted" the numbers up from the actual job losses/gains to save their a$$.
We'll never know going forward if any of the data is accurate due to the prez firing the bean counters when he doesn't like the numbers.