Unemployment rate remains unchanged, 4.1%.
Anti-Trumpers will have fun with this. But CNBC talking heads said this is actually a great number.
Job losses in retail sector -- down 67,000 for the year. [Warehouse workers -- such as Amazon -- are not reported in the retail sector.]
62.7% participation in labor force.
U6 - 8.1% -- this was "never" reported under the previous administration. Now, under Trump it's being reported. Steve Liesman made a huge, huge deal about this. During this discussion, Becky Quick showed her ignorance on the "Fed."
6.8% -- African-American unemployment rate -- lowest since BLS started keeping records in 1972.
US government cut 16,000 jobs in 2017.
US gained almost 200,000 manufacturing jobs in 2017.
This is how Yahoo!Finance saw it:
This is how investors saw it: Dow up 100 points.
Food stamp recipients down two million under Trump.
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