Number of jobs increased in Jan but not nearly as much as expected.
Unemployment rate fell but only because people stopped looking for work.
“The unemployment rate may go down, but that has nothing to do with an improving job market. It means there are more discouraged workers out there,” Silvia said.
“About 504,000 adults dropped out of the labor force in January for various reasons, bringing the unemployment rate down because they were no longer counted as unemployed.”
This is the worst part:
“The overall participation rate in the U.S. labor force fell to a new recession low of 64.2%.”
Not a good sign.
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