The US economy generated 199,000 non-farm jobs in December 2021, according to the Labor Department, well below consensus, but the unemployment rate fell by 0.3 points to 3.9%, a rate below expectations. economists.
The labor force participation rate increased slightly to 61.9%, a level which nevertheless remains 1.5 points lower than in February 2020, the month before the emergence of the health crisis in the United States.
In addition, the figures for the two previous months have been revised to 546,000 648,000 for October and 210,000 249,000 for November, a total revision of 141,000 over this bimonthly period.
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