As expected, the BLS employment numbers showed a gain for the first time since December 2007. Plus 162,000 was the number. The magical Birth/Death Index accounted for 81,000 of the gain. The second most important factor was the hiring of census workers.
The Census Bureau has added 72,000 workers so far this year, 48,000 of those in March.
Back in the real world, the U-6 number which incorporates people who have stopped looking for work, or part-timers who can’t find full-time jobs, climbed by 0.1 percentage point to 16.9%
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