KING: Fresh economic numbers today showing a resilient U.S. labor market as 2019 gave way to 2020 and the Election Year. The U.S. economy adding 145,000 jobs in December, that according to the latest jobs report. That number a bit short economists' excuse me expectations. The report, the final snap shot for 2019 and for the decade. Investors clearly cheering on the news the DOW Jones hitting a record 29,000 for the first time a bit earlier today you see it a bit below that. Now CNN's Christine Romans, first there to break down the numbers, Christine?</s>CHRISTINE ROMANS, CNN CHIEF BUSINESS CORRESPONDENT: John, I'm going to call it a solid end to the year. Not sizzling, but solid. 145,000 net new jobs created, and we saw October-November revise down just a little bit. Where is the hiring? 3.5 percent unemployment rate, still that low, low generational unemployment rate, retail trade, health care. This is about 400,000 jobs for the whole year in health care, manufacturing those stumbled again. The year really a disappointment for manufacturing job growth barely positive for the year in total on manufacturing jobs, and when you look at some of the output numbers that we watch, it's probably a manufacturing recession right now. It's the December jobs report, so we get the picture of the whole year. 2.1 million net new jobs for the year. That's a little bit shy of what we saw in 2018 that was probably the President's tax cuts boosting that, but it's in line with 2017 and really kind of on par with the last seven or eight years. It doesn't approach some of the best years of the Obama Administration. When you watch these numbers, we also really look at wages. 2.9 percent wage growth. This has been the missing piece, the missing piece of a strong--
U.S. Adds 145K Jobs In December, Unemployment Holds Steady.