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The state added 200 jobs for the month, bringing total nonfarm jobs to more than 6.08 million in January.
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Since February, after Trump took office, the economy has gained nearly 1.7 million jobs, according to preliminary data on nonfarm payroll for November.
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The unemployment rate dipped to 4.2% in September, the lowest reading in 16 years, despite U.S. nonfarm employers shedding jobs for the first time since September 2010.
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The increases in nonfarm payroll employment in July and August remained well above the pace likely to be sustainable in the longer run.
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Since 2012, the state economy has tended to grow faster than the rest of the nation, with the number of nonfarm jobs rising 15% in California since January 2012, compared with 10% nationwide.
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The nonfarm workforce in the Tacoma-Lakewood metropolitan division totaled 315,000 in June.
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Indeed, nonfarm private employment has risen for 87 months in a row and unemployment levels are at record lows, in a sign that Internet technologies have not in fact destroyed jobs.
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Nonfarm payroll employment grew in 297 of the metro areas.
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