Payroll employment increases by 148,000 in December; unemployment rate unchanged at 4.1%

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REAL TIME ECONOMICS | EMPLOYMENT

The December Jobs Report in 10 Charts

By Josh Zumbrun

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Jan 5, 2018 11:55 am ET

The pace of hiring slowed last month, but the unemployment rate held at a 17-year low. Nonfarm payrolls rose a seasonally adjusted 148,000 in December, the Labor Department said Friday. Over the course of 2017, the economy added 2.055 million jobs. That’s the seventh consecutive year of job gains over two million. The pace of hiring, {…}

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