March jobs number are 'a punch to the gut' as Americans flee workforce and young people lose optimism

When Dow Jones asked a group of economists to predict the number of new jobs the US economy added in March, the average answer was about 200,000. Friday's numbers, released by the US Department of Labor, were just 44 percent of that figure, an 88,000-job showing that paled in comparison to February's 268,000 and represented the lower number since ... (more)

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