"“This was a good and important number,” said Mark Luschini, a chief investment strategist for Janney Capital Management. “It suggests the underlying momentum in the economy is sufficiently strong,” and that performance in the winter was “somewhat anomalous.”
In 13 of the last 14 months, the nation has added at least 200,000 jobs, a period of hiring unmatched in 15 years. But starting this year, the pace of job growth took a modest step back. And in March, it cratered, with only 85,000 positions created — the worst showing since June 2012. The March hiring number initially stood at 126,000, but was revised downward Friday.
Economists now say that the hiring slowdown was likely influenced by a West Coast port strike that choked off supply lines and by a severe winter that kept shoppers and construction crews indoors. In Friday’s data, there was at least one clear sign of the hiring bounce-back: The construction industry added 45,000 jobs in April after losing 9,000 in March."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/05/08/u-s-to-release-jobs-growth-numbers-for-april/?hpid=z4
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