From CNN Breaking News@VERT to no-reply@siteservices.cnn.com on Friday, July 07, 2017 06:11:34
The US economy added 222,000 jobs in June[1], much more than economists were expecting, the Labor Department said Friday.
The unemployment rate rose slightly to 4.4%, hovering just above its lowest level since 2001. Shortly after the Great Recession ended in 2009, unemployment peaked at 10%.
June was the 81st consecutive month of job gains.
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