The Most Important Message in the December Job Figures

Friday’s employment report from the Labor Department, which showed that the U.S. economy added nearly three hundred thousand jobs in December, is obviously good news. Coming after a spate of China-inspired turmoil in the financial markets this week, it confirms that the U.S. economy, now in the sixth year of a recovery from the Great Recession, is still expanding steadily.

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