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Labor Secretary Thomas Perez on December jobs report

In the last jobs report of President Obama’s administration, the US economy added 156,000 jobs in December, missing economists’ estimates of 178,000, while the unemployment rate ticked up a tenth of a percent to 4.7%. This marks the 75th consecutive month of jobs growth in the US.