Waiters and Bartenders Lead the Charge, by Dawn Bennett
The unemployment numbers released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics last Friday gave the White House a lot to crow about. The headline unemployment number, the one they like to talk about was 5.5%, down from 5.7% in January, and the economy created nearly 300,000 new jobs, the twelfth month in a row with more than 200,000 jobs created. This sounds great, and both the President and Jason Furman, the Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, wasted no time...
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