BLS: 244,000 Jobs Added In April
The economy added nearly a quarter million jobs in the month of April, but the employment rate rose to 9 percent, up .2 percent from March, the bureau of labor statistics said today.
That’s partially because as people believe the economy is improving, they restart dormant job searches. Workers are not officially counted as unemployed unless they had searched for work in the four weeks leading up to when the survey is done.
However, that’s still the 7th straight month in which jobs were added rather than shed.
There were 13.7
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