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Don't start dancing in the aisles yet, folks: http://moneycentral.msn.com/content/CNBCTV/Articles/Dispatches/P71569.as p Here's a message for everyone who was worried about the job market -- you were right. The government this morning said the economy added just 1,000 jobs last month, far below the 150,000 figure economists were expecting. The unemployment rate fell to 5.7% from 5.9% in November. But CNBC's Hampton Pearson explained that it did so because the labor force declined last month. Bill Sullivan, Morgan Stanley's senior economist, said on CNBC's "Squawk Box" that structural impediments to job growth remain, including high productivity, which allows companies to hold off on hiring, and the move toward outsourcing jobs. Joe
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