U.S. jobs report: These numbers have economists jawboning

The latest U.S. payrolls report did little to settle the debate about where the job market is headed.

The latest U.S. payrolls report did little to settle the debate about where the job market is headed, with ample fodder for both “soft-landing” believers and doubters over whether the Federal Reserve can tame inflation without sending millions of workers onto the jobless rolls.