The October jobs figures released today by the BLS showed a stronger
U.S. labor market. The unemployment rate edged up by 0.08 percentage
points, just enough to raise the headline rate from 7.8 to 7.9 percent.
However, a look at the underlying data showed that the uptick in the
headline rate was a “good” increase of the kind that we often see as
previously discouraged workers return to a strengthening labor market.
The labor force increased by 578,000 workers in October. The number
of employed persons, as measured by the household survey from which
these data come, increased by 410,000.>>>Read more
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