April's Job Report Shows Decreasing Unemployment Rate
Well, the numbers are in and they do not look good. Are they better than stats from March? Yeah but they’re not exactly great. The April job report reflected a creation of 115,000 jobs and indicated the unemployment rate decreased from 8.2 percent to 8.1.
According to CNBC, although it may seem like jobs have been created, the number of discouraged employees increased from 865,000 to 968,000 — that’s an increase of 12 percent! Plus, people working on a part-time basis increased by 18,000.
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