The U.S. jobs report for December is out Friday, and the number of jobs added was way under the forecast. But the unemployment rate is down to 3.9%, a new pandemic low.
This data is from before the omicron-driven COVID-19 surge we’re currently in the midst of.
Mike Regan, senior editor of Bloomberg News, digs into the numbers.
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