The December jobs report comes out Friday, Jan. 9 — on time for a change, after all the delays following the government shutdown. There are already some hints as to what it might look like.
Payroll processor ADP reported private-sector employers added jobs in December — 41,000 of them, which isn’t particularly great in a 159.5 million-job economy. Though at least private employers didn’t cut jobs, like the month before.
The November Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey, released Wednesday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, showed job openings fell to a more-than-one-year low in November. Layoffs also fell, signaling a continuation of the low fire, low-hire situation…