Inherited 'mess' hard to find in economic data

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John W. Schoen
3 Hours Ago

... The stock market is at all-time highs ...

And the U.S. job market, which is creating jobs faster than employers can fill them, appears to be stronger than it's been in nearly a decade ...

The latest report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics — the decades-old survey that Trump took issue with during the campaign — showed that the U.S. economy added an estimated 227,000 new jobs last month, while the unemployment rate ticked up to 4.8 percent ...

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