New jobs numbers disappoint
The U.S. economy gained 431,000 jobs last month, according to numbers released this morning from the Bureau of Labor and Statistics. Lakshman Achuthan, managing director at the Economic Cycle Research Institute (ECRI), joins us to parse the numbers.
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