Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

April Jobs Report: 211,000 Jobs Added, Unemployment At 4.4 Percent (npr.org)

Posted by msmash on from the where-we-are dept.

An anonymous reader shares an NPR report: The U.S. economy added 211,000 jobs to nonfarm payrolls in April, the Bureau of Labor Statistics says. Both the unemployment rate, at 4.4 percent, and the number of unemployed persons, at 7.1 million, saw only incremental changes in April. The new data follow disappointing results from March, when the Labor Department initially said less than 100,000 jobs were created. In April, some of the biggest job gains came in leisure and hospitality, health care and social assistance, financial activities, and mining, the agency says.

3 of 198 comments (clear)

  1. Just a numbers game... by __aaclcg7560 · · Score: 4, Funny

    What about the 92 million unemployed Americans who are waiting for new coal mining jobs?

  2. Thank you President Trump! by IGnatius+T+Foobar · · Score: 4, Funny

    So happy to see these numbers. President Trump is a truly worthy successor to Lincoln and Reagan. Keep up the good work, sir!

    --
    Tired of FB/Google censorship? Visit UNCENSORED!
    1. Re:Thank you President Trump! by Nidi62 · · Score: 4, Funny

      So happy to see these numbers. President Trump is a truly worthy successor to Lincoln...

      How dare you compare Trump to a loser who couldn't even stop the Civil War! Sad! You need to compare him to a real winner like Andrew Jackson, a man so great that he was able to motivate people and get them moving all across the country!

      --
      The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for it to be pitted against a slightly greater evil