April Jobs Report Sees a Big Slowdown

April’s BLS jobs report shows a big slowdown in hiring with only 160,000 new non-farm payroll jobs. It may sound funny to say “only” 160,000 jobs but it’s a huge decline from last month’s 215,000 increase. For several months the average increase in non-farm payroll jobs has hovered around 200,000, so this represents a drop […]