[apo]

> This was the sharpest downward revision in jobs totals since 2009, when the economy was just starting to emerge from the Great Recession.

It's not clear what number the article is talking about. Assuming nonfarm payroll, the BLS has this data set of revisions going back to 1979:

https://www.bls.gov/web/empsit/cesnaicsrev.htm

Assuming these figures report thousands, nothing really jumps out as being >500, expansion year or not - 2009 included.

Edit:

I suspect the article is reporting total jobs, not jobs change, but I'm not sure. The BLS link appears to be reporting change in nonfarm employment. Surprisingly poor labeling of data sets in both cases.

[Steko]

This is the annual benchmarking adjustment not the monthly revisions.