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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Washington (March 10, 2017) - National Association of Federally-Insured Credit Unions (NAFCU) Chief Economist Curt Long issued the following statement in response to the Labor Dept.'s February employment report.

"The labor market continues to add jobs at a robust pace. With the addition of 235,000 to the labor force, the participation rate equaled its high-water mark of the past three years, and broader measures of unemployment declined," said Long. "Most doubts about whether the FOMC would hike at its March meeting were put to bed last week after a series of hawkish remarks from Fed officials, but any lingering uncertainty has certainly been squelched with today's strong report."

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Falen Taylor
ftaylor@nafcu.org