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U.S. labor market tightening despite moderate November job gains

By Lucia Mutikani WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. employment growth slowed considerably in November amid job losses at retailers and in local government education, but the unemployment rate plunged to a 21-month low of 4.2%, suggesting the labor market was rapidly tightening. The four-tenths-of-a-percentage-point drop in the jobless rate from October reported by the Labor Department…

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Nebraska is sixth U.S. state with Omicron coronavirus variant

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A sixth U.S. state – Nebraska – reported the Omicron variant of the coronavirus after detecting six confirmed cases of the highly contagious strain, the state’s health department said on Friday. Only one of the six people was…

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