7 May 2021 - Hiring was a huge letdown in April, with nonfarm payrolls increasing by a much less than expected 266,000 and the unemployment rate rose to 6.1% amid an escalating shortage of available workers.

7 May 2021 - The U.S. economy added just 266,000 jobs in April, a disappointing month of growth that fell well below economists’ estimates despite declining virus caseloads and increased vaccine distribution around the country.

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7 May 2021 - Employers added 266,000 jobs in April, the government reported Friday, far below the gains registered in March.

5 May 2021 - A customer walks by a now hiring sign at a store, April 02, 2021, in Larkspur, Calif.(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) Employers added 742,000 jobs in April in a further sign of the strengthening labor market, private sector payroll firm ADP reported ...

7 May 2021 - The U.S. economy added 266,000 jobs in April, sharply missing economists' expectations.

Completely unexpected in the jobs report was an uptick in the unemployment rate from 6.0 percent in March to 6.1 percent in April. Several will argue that many people prefer to remain on the better than normal unemployment benefits thanks to ...

7 May 2021 - Average hourly earnings, year-over-year, April: 0.3%vs.-0.4% expected and 4.2% in March · Non-farm payrolls rose for a fourth straight month but at a markedly slower-than-expected clip, despite easing social distancing standards across the ...

7 May 2021 - This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? Log in. The US economy added 266,000 jobs in April, a huge miss of the median estimate of 1 million.

The Department of Labor reported the unemployment rate ticked up 0.1 percentage point to 6.1% in April. Nonfarm jobs increased by 266,000 in April.

In April, employment in leisure and hospitality increased by 331,000, as pandemic-related restrictions · continued to ease in many parts of the country. More than half of the increase was in food services and · drinking places (+187,000). Job gains also occurred in amusements, gambling, and ...

California employers added an estimated 101,800 jobs in April, the third straight month over 100,000.

The labor force participation rate for working-age people with disabilities increased from 33.4 percent in March to 33.7 percent in April 2021 (up 0.9 percent or 0.3 percentage points).

5 November 2021 - The great hope has been that employers would fill that gap rapidly, bringing the United States back to its full potential in short order. Even if you view April as an outlier, job growth has averaged only 524,000 a month for the last three months, a ...

Positive Job Creation Tempered by Unexpectedly Smaller Numbers; Unemployment Rate Up JOBS GROWTH: The rate of jobs growth slowed in April, with the creation of 266,000 new jobs. TOP INDUSTRIES: The most robust hiring in April was seen in leisure ...

7 May 2021 - And we knew this wouldn’t be a sprint; it would be a marathon. Quite frankly, we are moving more rapidly than I thought we would. This morning, we learned that our economy created 266,000 jobs in April.

7 May 2021 - At least job gains picked up in ... 17% below pre-pandemic levels. Shockingly, in a period of quickly rising housing prices, construction industries added no new jobs in April....

19 May 2021 - The U.S. economy gained 226,000 jobs in April. The numbers fell far below economist expectations, even as vaccinations increase, and COVID-19 cases decrease across the country. The report comes one year after the economy shed 20.5 million jobs ...

7 May 2021 - About 2.7 million people have been unemployed 52 weeks or more, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which published its April jobs report Friday.

7 May 2021 - Economists thought that the economy would add a whole lot of jobs — about a million, to be exact — in April. Friday's job reports turned that thinking upside down with a big surprise: The US economy added 266,000 jobs in April, falling ...