The rise in the index of aggregate hours since July is equivalent to adding 498,000 private sector jobs a month The economy added 531,000 jobs in October, as the unemployment rate fell to 4.6 percent, a level not reached following the Great Recession until February 2017. The jobs numbers for the prior two months were More

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