Unemployment increased for good reasons

By Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias Aug 1, 2014, 8:47am EDT

This is a "good" increase in the unemployment rate. More people working and more people looking for work.
— Binyamin Appelbaum (@BCAppelbaum) August 1, 2014

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