These showed the number of people employed in the public sector dropping by 33,000 between the summer and the autumn.
individual
Could this effort to kill the individual mandate ultimately kill Obamacare altogether? Perhaps, but there are two alternative possibilities that conservatives will not like.
interpretation
解释, 说明; 诠释
The pessimistic interpretation is that this reflects concerns about America’s fiscal mess (see article), in a paler version of bondholders’ jitters about Greece and Spain.