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Poverty-related issues in the news, from the Institute for Research on Poverty

April 2015 US Unemployment Rate

U.S. economy added 223,000 jobs in April; unemployment rate at 5.4%, By Nelson D. Schwartz, May 8, 2015, New York Times: “The American job market rebounded in April, the government said on Friday, helping to ease worries that the economy was on the brink of another extended slowdown after a bleak winter in which the overall economy stalled. But the growth in jobs failed to translate, once again, into any significant improvement in pay.  Employers added 223,000 positions last month, the Labor Department reported, and the unemployment rate decreased to 5.4 percent, a turnaround from the disappointing performance in March, initially reported as a modest 126,000 gain and then revised down on Friday to 85,000…”