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Liberty and the Indissoluble Union Between Virtue and Happiness

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Liberty and the Indissoluble Union Between Virtue and Happiness
Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers Kevin Hassett fist-bumps reporters outside the White House on May 03, 2019, in Washington. Hassett answered questions about Friday's positive jobs numbers, where the U.S. economy added 263,000 jobs and the unemployment rate fell to 3.6% in April. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
Clifford Humphrey
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The jobs report for the month of April demonstrates that the U.S. economy is doing really well—in fact, it’s amazing. Unemployment is at a 50-year low, and private-sector wages are up 3.2 percent from just a year ago. Those are impressive numbers.
Clifford Humphrey
Clifford Humphrey
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Clifford Humphrey is a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Human Ecology at the Catholic University of America and the Director of Admissions for Thales College. He holds a PhD in politics from Hillsdale College, and he resides in Raleigh, North Carolina.
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