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kstinfo t1_j3765ci wrote

Key Points

Nonfarm payrolls increased by 223,000 for the month, above the Dow Jones estimate for 200,000.

Payrolls - read, people.

The unemployment rate fell to 3.5%, a decline of 0.2 percentage point and also better than the estimate.

Cool.

Wage growth was below expectations, with average hourly earnings up 4.6% from a year ago, below the 5% estimate.

More people working but for less.

Leisure and hospitality led job gains, followed by health care, construction and social assistance.

L&H - while everyone else is lagging behind the 'haves' still want to be catered to. Healthcare - need people to count their profits. Construction - materials may cost more but let's put one more breath into the bubble. Social Assistance - when the 'have nots' cannot be totally ignored.

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kstinfo t1_iy6zrb3 wrote

The price of digital ink go up?

From elsewhere:

Court documents do not detail their alleged motivations, saying only that Thomas told police that she and Hershberger would “drive around and he would pick out barns to burn.”

but also

PLYMOUTH, Ind. (AP) — A couple accused of torching eight barns last year in a northern Indiana county now face charges alleging that they also set fire to an Amish school in an adjacent county.

Some, but not all, of the barns the pair allegedly set on fire belonged to members of the Amish community.

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