The explanation is that an unemployment rate of 3.7 percent, which long signaled a job market as tight as a drumhead, just isn’t as low as it used to be. “The 3.7 percent rate overstates the true strength of the labor market,” says Peter Ireland, a Boston College economics professor and former Fed researcher.

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