US Jobs Report December 2013: Unemployment Rate Drops To 6.7%, Nonfarm Payrolls A Big Miss But Won't Affect Fed Tapering Time Table

December's much-weaker-than-expected job growth should be taken with a grain of salt, economists say, and one month worth of data should not stop the Federal Reserve from making another reduction of its asset purchases at the January policy meeting. The U.S. economy added 74,000 jobs in December, the smallest increase since January 2011, the Labor Department said Friday. That's a far cry from the 196,000 jobs Wall Street expected.