Employment Situation Summary
- Job growth surged by 312,000 in December.
- Hispanics enjoyed record-low unemployment in December.
- 419,000 new workers entered the workforce and the labor force participation rate increased to 63.1%.
- 3.2% wage increase over a year ago (up 0.4% from November), which beats analysts' expectations of 3% for the year.
Let's impeach him....
Trump on the UE numbers...
Don’t believe those phony numbers, When you hear 4.9 and five-per-cent unemployment, the number’s probably twenty-eight, twenty-nine, as high as thirty-five—in fact, I even heard recently forty-two per cent.”