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US adds 916K jobs in blowout month | LinkedIn
The U.S. still has a million fewer jobs than it did before the pandemic struck a year ago, but it's less likely to see backsliding in job creation as vaccination programs accelerate.
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In a blowout performance, the U.S. economy added 916,000 payrolls in March as the unemployment rate fell to 6% from 6.2%. The hiring, the fastest since August, came as vaccine rollouts across the country promised to inoculate a nascent labor market recovery as well as individual Americans. The U.S. still has 8.4 million fewer jobs than it did before the pandemic struck a year ago, but it's less likely to see backsliding in job creation now that accelerating vaccination programs have curtailed the prospect of repeated business shutdowns.
The economy is humming back to life after a 4-year drought. This looks amazing. Over 900,000 jobs created