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Live updates: Another shockingly good jobs report shows America's economy is booming (www.cnn.com)

submitted 5 months ago by btaf45@kbin.social to c/politics@lemmy.ml

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The US economy added a whopping 353,000 jobs last month, far more than the 176,500 jobs expected. It's yet another data point that underlines the country's economic strength, even in the face of 11 rate hikes from the Federal Reserve.

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[–] Jknaraa@lemmy.ml 4 points 5 months ago

Because the advent of computers allows for all kinds of creative new ways to massage numbers to "prove" something to people, even when it flies in the face of what is obviously happening in the real world.