The labor department announced that the unemployment rate has dropped to 9 percent following four months of consecutive growth; 36 thousand jobs have been added to the economy. That was significantly fewer jobs than anticipated; economists had forecast a rise by 136,000 jobs. Kelly Evans, reporter for The Wall Street Journal puts these numbers in context.
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