December’s jobs report showed employers added 216,000 jobs for the month while the unemployment rate held at 3.7%. Payroll growth showed a sizeable gain from November’s downwardly revised 173,000

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    Or people came back into the workforce. Back during Obama, when unemployment numbers started to decrease, thr common refrain was that the workforce participation rate was going down hand in hand and that unemployment improvement was a sham. Now those people are coming back into the workforce.