We forecast a 170,000 gain in non-farm payrolls in February, given that most of the recent cuts to the federal workforce won’t yet have shown up in the data and employment in weather-sensitive sectors should have rebounded to a degree. Otherwise, we think the unemployment rate remained at 4.0%, while average hourly earnings growth rose to 4.2%.
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