Unemployment Unchanged in December, but Retail Job Losses Continue

U.S. employers added 148,000 jobs in December, leaving unemployment unchanged at 4.1%, the lowest rate since its prior heyday of 2000, according to recent data released by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. During 2017, more than 2 million jobs were added to the U.S. economy. Although December overall job creation wasn’t quite as robust as many analysts…