They have been proclaiming a slowing labor and employment market for weeks, if not months. Has the Unemployment Rate (UR) risen? Yes! What they don’t emphasize, however, is the abnormally sustained low levels of UR for the last 2+ years. In other words, and akin to many economic metrics, the labor and employment data has been normalizing back to trend….
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