In my travel’s I ‘ve seen LESS workers in retail stores…
And auto checkout machine pop up more…
Although last month’s net job creation of 103,000 was well below analysts’ forecasts, economists instead attributed much of the slowdown to a payback for the unusually big burst of 326,000 new positions added in February. Milder than usual weather in February had bolstered construction payrolls, but in March that partially reversed.
American manufacturers, meanwhile, kept adding a healthy number of jobs last month.
Most experts took the overall disappointing job numbers in stride, given that they were just one month’s data. For the entire first quarter, job growth has averaged about 202,000 a month, enough to keep up with the growing workforce population — and then some.
“The strong job market does appear to be drawing back some people who have been out of the labor force for a significant time,”….