US jobs picture little changed in December
- Published: 4 Jan 2013 at 21.45
- Online news: World
The US continued to add jobs in December at the same modest rate as the past two years, underscoring the still frustratingly slow pace of reducing unemployment, official data released Friday showed.
A "now hiring" sign is posted in the window of a Gap clothing store in San Francisco on September 27, 2012. The US continued to add jobs in December at the same modest rate as the past two years, underscoring the still frustratingly slow pace of reducing unemployment, official data released Friday showed.
Tepid economic growth and business reticence to step up hiring as government leaders battled to the January 1 deadline to avert the economic crunch of the fiscal cliff meant little significant improvement in the US jobs situation in the final quarter of 2012.
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