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April Jobs Report Released

Unemployment falls, 165,000 jobs added

Reason Staff | 5.3.2013 8:33 AM

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The number is out and it's good all around!

165K new jobs was above the 140K that was expected.

The unemployment rate fell to 7.5%.

And there were big upward revisions to lastmonth, which was originally really weak.

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