Report from the U.S. Department of Labor statistics: The not-so bad news: Nonfarm payroll employment continued to deteriorate this month (down 345,000), but slowed for the second month in a row (539,000 in April and 633,000 in March). This is about half of the average decline in the last six months. The number of unemployed [...]
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