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USA Today: Jobs Data Reveal Unexpected Good News
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Last week, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke voiced skepticism about whether the recent pickup in the job market will be sustained. Funny thing is, the actual employment picture may be even better than the headline job figures have shown.
For the three months through February, the U.S. added an average of 245,000 payrolls, marking the strongest gains since 2006. The good news looks like it continued in March, with economists looking for Friday's jobs report to show a gain of 210,000 jobs.
The jobs data come from a monthly Labor Department payroll survey of nearly 6% ...
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