The U.S. economy created 818,000 fewer jobs than initially reported over the prior 12 months, according to a preliminary data revision from the Bureau of Labor Statistics this morning.
That update pushes the unemployment rate higher by about half a percentage point. But markets appeared to take the news in stride this morning, and the Biden administration defended the labor economy’s strength.
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