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Payrolls get back on track

We estimate that non-farm payroll employment recovered from last month’s weather-related blip with a robust 185,000 increase in April. The unemployment rate probably ticked back up to 4.6%, but this won’t prevent a continued gradual acceleration in wage growth over the coming months.

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