According to the latest Employment Situation Summary by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the U.S. economy added 916,000 jobs in March, the biggest month-to-month jump since August of last year. Other measures on the health of the U.S. labor market also point to a recovering economy as the public health crisis begins to abate and Congress proactively enacted continued economic relief.
The latest Jobs Day report shows that share of U.S. workers in their prime working years at ages 25 to 54 who currently have a job —also known as the prime-age employment-to-population ratio—climbed from 76.5 percent in February to 76.8 percent in March, and the national unemployment rate fell from 6.2 percent to 6.0 percent. The Jobs report also shows that last month’s gains were not as strong
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