WASHINGTON—U.S. businesses added a smaller yet still healthy number of jobs in Nov., while the unemployment rate remains at a five-decade low and wages rose solidly.
The latest Labor Department data in their latest report (pdf) released Dec.7, portrays an economy that is still adding jobs at a steady rate after nearly a decade of recovery. So far, employers are mostly shrugging off the financial market turmoil of the past two months and escalating trade tensions between the United States and China.
