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Numbers on thursday. the dow closed at another record high, 17,068. meanwhile new jobs numbers showing employers added 288,000 jobs in june, reducing the unemployment rate to its lowest level since december -- or september rather of 2008. all of this tapping a dramatic comeback from the lows of the financial crisis. but does the economy have the momentum to keep pushing forward? financial adviser, president of differers fie financial consultants joins us. thank you so much for talking to us. what a great way to end the week, right, before the fourth of july holiday. but the question is, is it ...

28 288,000 new jobs were ad in june. this is the best stretch since the tech boom of the late '90s. unemployment is now 6.1%. let's go inside the numbers with jared bernstein. good to see you. >> nice to see you. s >> so where are we seeing the growth? >> you mentioned quantity, but quality is not much quite as much. however the two are related. and as the job market tightens up, we expect workers to have a bit more bargaining power. but we noticed in the report, which was a strong report, was that while the pace of job growth is accelerating, the pace of wage growth is not. it's steady at abo...

Income gap. it is an election year. how will this play out as we get closer to the mid terms? especially control of the senate? >> if you look at 2014 and and which democrats need to win their elections, looking at people in arkansas and you are looking at democrats wanting to take kentucky as a senate seat. and those are states where the president did not do well and the far left message is not going to resonate among those kinds of constituents. so i think that's why the moderates and the party are going to continue to win out over the next couple of months. those are the people that they ne...

Jolt that's going to have some tremendous growth later on in the year. >> it's been five years since the recession ended. 288,000 jobs as i just mentioned were added in june. yet consumers spending is still weak. what do you attribute to those jobs numbers? do you feel they're strong enough or should they be stronger? >> so, two parts to that. the first is that we actually dig into the jobs numbers. the 288 was a great number. but when you dig into you realize that a significant portion of that were part-time jobs or lower-paying jobs. in fact the household survey says that we lost over 500,00...

Volunteers. >> good job there. >> yes. our heroes. now a lot of people have been waiting for this -- ishs the economy added 288,000 jobs in june. >> yeah, but that's not all. employers added 1.4 million jobs in the first six months of the year. that's the strongest six months of job growth in eight years. cnn chief business correspondent christine romans breaks down the numbers for us. christine, good morning. >> alison and victor, look within the numbers. by now you've seen the headline. 288,000 jobs created. the trend is important here, because the trend is telling us that there is some mo...