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The American jobs engine slowed markedly last month, confounding rosy forecasts of the pace of the recovery and sharpening debates over how best to revive a labor market that was severely weakened by the coronavirus pandemic. Employers added 266,000 jobs in April, the government reported Friday, far below the vigorous gains registered in March. The jobless rate rose slightly to 6.1 percent, as more people rejoined the labor force. Unemployment rose for the first time since April 2020. The share of people who have looked for work in the past four weeks or are temporarily laid off, which does n...

The US economy only added 266,000 nonfarm payrolls last month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced Friday. That's way less than 1 million, the median estimate for payroll gains by economists surveyed by Bloomberg. While it was the fourth consecutive month of payroll increases, it was the smallest since September. As a Morgan Stanley note from economist Robert Rosener's team stated, "The expected 'string' of strong jobs reports has started to look more like a modest trail of crumbs." In the process, unemployment has risen again, albeit slightly from 6% to 6.1%, it was the opposite directi...

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Reopening can bring about maximum employment, it's just a matter of "how long it takes to get there," BlackRock CIO Rick Rieder said.

The U.S. economy created more jobs than expected in February as falling new COVID-19 infections and additional pandemic relief money from the government boosted hiring at restaurants and other services businesses, firmly putting the labor market recovery back on track.