One of President Barack Obama’s favorite statistics about the economy just quietly disappeared.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics on Friday issued its latest monthly jobs report, which included revisions to earlier reports. As a result, the U.S. private sector is now credited with a net loss of 1,000 jobs in May 2016 — officially the first month since February 2010 that the private sector didn’t gain jobs.

Obama had repeatedly touted the streak, which ended at 74 months.

"We're in the middle of the longest streak of private-sector job creation in history,” he said in January’s State of the Union address. The White House also frequently mentioned the streak in press briefings and pushed the number on Twitter and Facebook, finding it to be a useful statistic to highlight on social media.

The current streak is over because of a statistical fluke: Nearly 40,000 striking Verizon workers were temporarily counted as lost jobs in May. (And the downturn for the economy was brief; the June and July jobs reports showed more than 500,000 new private sector jobs combined.)

But it's not the first time a fleeting anomaly got in the way of statistical history. President Bill Clinton would've presided over an 85-month streak, if not for a massive blizzard in January 1996 that forced a government shutdown. Because of that one-month downturn, Clinton settled for a then-record 51-month streak.

Meanwhile, another streak continues: Total non-farm job growth, which includes government jobs, is now at 70 months and counting. The White House already has adjusted its rhetoric.

“Longest streak of total job growth on record,” the president tweeted on Friday. “Let's keep it going.”

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