Friday, May 3, 2019

Businesses add 260,000 jobs in April as unemployment drops to 3.6%

Businesses hired 263,000 people in April, again defying many economists' expectations that a tight labor market would slow down job creation. Economists were expecting about 190,000 jobs to be added for the month. The unemployment rate ticked down to 3.6 percent, the lowest since December 1969. "We're …

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