28 288,000 new jobs were ad in june. this is the best stretch since the tech boom of the late 90s. unemployment is now 6.1%. let s go inside the numbers with jared bernstein. good to see you. nice to see you. s so where are we seeing the growth? you mentioned quantity, but quality is not much quite as much. however the two are related. and as the job market tightens up, we expect workers to have a bit more bargaining power. but we noticed in the report, which was a strong report, was that while the pace of job growth is accelerating, the pace of wage growth is not. it s steady at about 2% nominal, that means before inflation. now, inflation is also running at about 2%. and that means that paychecks are kind of flat in terms of