apnews35d ago
Labor Department reports steady growth in US companies' hiring
The American job market is looking brighter this year than it did in a gloomy 2025. The Labor Department is expected to report Friday that U.S. companies, nonprofits and government agencies added 60,000 jobs last month. That would be down from an unexpectedly strong 130,000 in January. But it would mark considerable improvement over the monthly average of just 15,000 new jobs in 2025, weakest hiring since the COVID-19 recession year 2020. The unemployment rate is forecast to have stayed at a low 4.3%, according to a survey of forecasters by the data firm FactSet.
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