原文標題：
Hiring falters in December as payrolls rise only 199,000, though the
unemployment fell to 3.9%
原文連結：http://t.ly/mNNE CNBC
發布時間：2022/01/07
原文內容：
The U.S. economy added far fewer jobs than expected in December just as the
nation was grappling with a massive surge in Covid cases, the Labor
Department said Friday.
Nonfarm payrolls grew by 199,000, while the unemployment rate fell to 3.9%,
according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data. That compared to the Dow Jones
estimate of 422,000 for the payrolls number and 4.1% for the unemployment
rate.
Job creation was highest in leisure and hospitality, a key recovery sector,
which added 53,000. Professional and business services contributed 43,000
while manufacturing added 26,000.
The unemployment rate fell to a fresh pandemic-era low and near the 50-year
low of 3.5% in February 2020. That decline came even though the labor force
participation rate was unchanged at 61.9%. A more encompassing measure of
unemployment that includes discouraged workers and those holding part0time
jobs for economic reasons slid to 7.3%, down 0.4 percentage points.
Average hourly earnings rose more than expected as the U.S. sees its fastest
inflation pace in nearly 40 years. Wages rose 0.6% for the month and were up
4.7% year over year.
The numbers come at a crossroads for the U.S. economy as more than half a
million Covid cases per day, many related to the omicron variant, threaten to
stall an economic recovery that looks to accelerate in 2022.
While growth decelerated through the summer, economists expect that GDP rose
sharply at the end of the year, with the Atlanta Fed tracking 6.7% growth.
Federal Reserve officials have been watching the data closely.
The central bank has indicated it will begin slowing the help it has been
providing the economy since the pandemic began.
Friday’s report covers the week including December 12, which is before the
worst omicron peak at the start of Christmas.
勞工部週五表示，美國經濟在12月增加的就業機會遠低於預期，就像該國正在努力應對
Covid病例的大規模激增一樣。
根據美國勞工統計局的數據，非農就業人數增加了199000人，而失業率降至3.9%。
相比之下，道瓊估計的就業人數為422000人，失業率為4.1%。
休閒和酒店業創造了最高的就業機會，這是一個關鍵的復甦部門，增加了53000人。
專業和商業服務貢獻了43000人，而製造業增加了26000人。
失業率降至大流行時期的新低，並在2020年2月接近3.5%的50年低點。
儘管勞動力參與率維持在61.9%不變，但還是出現了這種下降。
一個更全面的失業率衡量標準，包括沮喪的工人和那些因經濟原因從事兼職工作的人，
下滑至7.3%，下降了0.4個百分點。
平均時薪增長超過預期，因為美國出現了近40年來最快的通脹速度。
工資當月上漲0.6%，同比增長4.7%。
這些數位正處於美國經濟的十字路口，因為每天有超過50萬例Covid病例，其中許多與
omicron變異有關，有可能阻礙經濟復甦，而經濟復甦有望在2022年加速。
雖然整個夏季經濟增長放緩，但經濟學家預計，今年年底GDP將大幅增長，亞特蘭大聯儲
將實現6.7%的增長率。美聯儲官員一直在密切關注這些數據。
央行已表示將開始放緩自大流行開始以來為經濟提供的説明。
週五的報告涵蓋了包括12月12日在內的一周，這是在開始進入omicron高峰之前。
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