More than half a million new jobs were created last month, the Labor Department said, nearly triple Wall Street forecasts. The U.S. economy added far ... Statistics said 517,000 new jobs were ...

US job growth slowed considerably last month, with just 175,000 positions added in April, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data released Friday. The slower-than-expected gains — April’s ...

The economy added 175,000 jobs, far below expectations for 235,000 and a reversal of the trend for robust monthly gains.

The February Jobs Report showed that the U.S. economy added more jobs than projected in the previous month, with payrolls growing by 517,000 compared to an expected 185,000 Wage growth was also ...

The labor market showed some signs of cooling in April, as the U.S. added a lower-than-expected 175,000 jobs, data released Friday by the Labor Department show, forcing the unemployment rate to ...

Companies have continued to cut jobs in 2024 after a wave of layoffs last year. Amazon, IBM, Google, UPS and Tesla are among those shedding staff. The number of individuals filing for unemployment ...

US employers increased their payrolls by 175,000 in April — a notable slowdown from the average 276,000 new jobs per month created ... and Dow industrials each added more than 1.2%.

Last month, the unemployment rate sat at 3.9%. The rate dropped, in part, due to the additional 303,000 jobs added in March. The unemployment rate hasn’t shifted much over the last few months.

The leisure and hospitality sector was the poster child of the employment devastation wreaked by the pandemic, losing half of its workforce (a whopping 8 million jobs) in two months. The March ...