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While the nationwide unemployment rate remained relatively steady, ticking up to 4.2% from 4.1% last month, workers who are employed may be seeing a small increase in their wages.

That consensus has centered on a push for more foreign trade, less government regulation of business, tax cuts and other fiscal stimulus when necessary to sustain steady growth and low unemployment.

A steady companion when life and other humans fail us.

“We expect this rate to hold steady as we approach the holidays, given that this is the busiest shopping period each year.”

For most of the remaining countries that participated both years in the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study, administered every 4 years, the scores held steady.