US hiring continued at a brisk pace in December, adding a greater than expected 216,000 new jobs to conclude a year of robust employment expansion.Unemployment held stead at 3.7 percent, making December the 25th straight month with an unemployment rate below 4 percent, the country's longest such run since the 1960s.December's job gains were more than the 170,000 that economists had projected, and the largest monthly employment gain since September.
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