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After the recovery. this is the strongest job pace i think since we re talking about august here. when you look at the jobless rate of 5.9%, it s up just a tiny bit, i would call it basically unchanged. the jobless rate, you can see how far that has come down from the peak of the crisis. 5.9% is an improvement, but it is well above where we were before the crisis began. leisure and hospitality, big gainers there. retail, business and law firms, manufacturing. public and private education, also some big hiring there. and the labor department noted upward pressure on wages because of that labor shortage we have been talking about. what we have seen here is a real realignment of what workers want to get back to. in these numbers here, jim, it shows you the highest rate of people leaving a job and looking for a new job that we ve seen since, i think, november of 2016. so people coming back from ....