bad news

payrolls increased 164,000

Wages also continued to increase,

Economists had expected the unemployment rate to drop to 3.6%, which would have tied a 50-year low, but an influx of 370,000 new workers to the labor force brought the participation rate up to 63%, its highest since March.

Along with that, a broader measure of unemployment that accounts for discouraged workers and the underemployed, sometimes called the "real" unemployment rate, dropped to 7%, its lowest since December 2000.

the data also showed that companies are continuing to hire despite persistent fears of a broader economic slowdown


Yes, Virginia, the economy will turn south again someday. A straight shot upward is not how economies work. The prayer for Democrats is that this happens before election day 2020. They need pain and misery, joblessness and hopelessness and if that that is what it takes to get Trump out and a Democrat, any democrat, in, then they are all for it.

New Campaign slogan for the Dems: Vote ___________, s(he) will reverse the prosperity and be polite when speaking"