Job Gains, Possible Productivity Gains Point to Continued Speedy Economic Recovery

Construction workers assemble a scaffold at a job site, as phase one of reopening after lockdown begins in New York on June 8, 2020. Brendan McDermid/File Photo/Reuters

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The number of unemployed persons in the United States fell by 1 million last month, a pace that would put the nation back to pre-pandemic numbers in about six months.