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Wages up as Americans are encouraged back to work and into the office – 3 takeaways from the latest jobs report

  • Written by Christopher Decker, Professor of Economics, University of Nebraska Omaha
image"Heigh-ho, heigh-ho, it's back to work we go."Klaus Vedfelt/Getty Images

After a lackluster jobs report in September 2021, the latest news on employment gives Americans plenty of cheer about ahead of the holiday season.

In total, 531,000 jobs were added in October – outstripping the already optimistic predictions of economists. This caused the...

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