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320,000 new jobs per month, highest average in recent years. employers created 2.mi6 million jobs last year well above 2017 and highest in a year since 2015. let's dig into this. the unemployment rate which i tend to concentrate the least, 3.9%. this is good news because it means more people have entered the workforce and are looking for a jocb. and the labor force participation rate has increased. it is now 63.1% up 0.4% compared to a year ago. but a year ago, this is a long chart, take a look at this, this is 63.1%. it was 67% in 1998, 2000, it has

Year, stronger than expected shows that thefive-month high. i'll tell you the explanation. more people are out there looking for jobs. because the labor force participation rate rose to 63.1%. that's the highest since september 2017. more people looking for jobs pushing the unemployment rate up. i got to say, it's a very strong number all around. that's why you shouldn't worry about that unemployment rate. i will also say, though, why is the market throwing a tantrum? we had another down 600-point day yesterday. tapping off the worst year for stocks in 2018 in ten years. because the market is ...

When president trump was elected we were basically at full employment and we're still right there. >> well, you're looking at -- look, we had 63.1% on labor participation. that's a 42-month high. we're down -- the percentage of the population that was employed was at 60.4%. it hasn't been that high since january of 2009 and the real unemployment rate has now hit a low 8.3% it hasn't hit since may of 2007. we are seeing historically good job numbers. this is real progress. we need to keep it up. we need to keep it going in the right direction. >> if we do, then we'll see wage growth and wage gr...

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