It's not just the 227,000 payroll jobs that were added in February - it's the upward revisions from earlier months that economists are spotting. The January jobs figure was increased by 41,000 and the December figure by 20,000. Overall, the economy has added an average 245,000 jobs over the past three months - that's significant. (NYT)
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