A Turkey Day dilemma: Why Americans may not be so grateful for a strong job market

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A strong job market is something to be thankful for. Most of the time.

The labor market has kept right on chugging through 2023, proving pretty unflappable in the face of rising interest rates. Despite the Federal Reserve’s attempts to slow the economy, unemployment is still low, job openings are plentiful and the number of people filing first-time jobless claims is bumping along at historic lows.

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