The big news from the Labor Department’s employment report Friday is that 601,000 Americans re-entered the workforce in June. This caused the unemployment rate to tick up to 4% from 3.8% even as employers added 213,000 jobs, and it’s more evidence that faster growth is luring more people back into the workforce.
Workers who haven’t gone to college accounted for all of this month’s net increase in the labor force and employment. This suggests renewed economic optimism among less-skilled or less-educated workers. The labor-force...