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First, there's news 130,000 more people were on America's payrolls last month.

That's more than twice what was expected.

Also, the separate survey of households finds the unemployment rate ticking down a sliver, 4.3% now.

But this is also the moment each year when the government does revisions for previous months, and that shows a year that might earn a...

B minus or C plus for hiring.

Economist Julia Coronado is founder of Macro Policy Perspectives.

Morning, Julia.

Good morning.

So first of all, that's nice.

More people getting on payrolls.

We were due for the big yearly revision today, and it looks like all those other months were revised downward.

I get by 862,000 people we thought had jobs didn't.