By Justin Lahart
Thursday's June jobs report was weaker than economists expected. But stepping back, the labor market looks as if it has shaken off the weakness it exhibited in the later half of last year. The economy added an average of 92,000 jobs a month over the six months through June. In the final six months of last year, it lost an average of 8,000.
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