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The Labor Department released its hiring and unemployment figures for October on Friday morning, providing the latest snapshot of the American economy.
The
Numbers
■ 250,000 jobs were added last month.
■ The unemployment rate was unchanged at 3.7 percent, a nearly 50-year low.
■ Average earnings rose by 0.2 percent and are up
3.1 percent over the past year.
■ The number of people working or looking for a job increased by 711,000, nudging the labor force participation rate up to 62.9 percent, from 62.7 percent in September.