Top of the Hour: New Jobs Numbers, Morning Headlines

The Takeaway

Despite across-the-board indications that the U.S. economy would be seeing enormous job growth this month, employers added just 18,000 jobs. Dan Gross, columnist and economics editor of Yahoo! Finance, discusses the stalled labor market in the face of the lowest job growth in nearly a year.

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