0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.
Hurricanes Harvey and Irma damaged not only Texas and Florida but also the U.S. jobs picture, as payrolls fell by 33,000 in September. That drop came even as the unemployment rate fell to a 16-year low of 4.2 percent, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday.The jobs loss was the first monthly decline in seven years, when the economy was still pulling out of the Great Recession......https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/06/us-lost-33000-jobs-in-sept-vs-90000-jobs-increase-expected.html
In all, though, 2017 thus far has seen the slowest jobs growth in at least five years.
Is this true?