Since the end of last year, the economy has added over 1.3 million new jobs. This past month the number was far higher than the analysts had predicted coming in at 255,000 new jobs compared with the 180,000 that had been predicted. Numbers for the past few months have also been revised upward.
Wages have also risen by 2.6 percent over the last year.
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