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   Laffy (gottalaff@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 03-May-2024 22:23:50 JST Laffy

   U.S. employers added 175,000 jobs in April, a downshift in the pace of hiring. The unemployment rate ticked up to 3.9% -NYT

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     Laffy (gottalaff@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 03-May-2024 22:23:50 JST Laffy

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     2/ “It was the 40th straight month of job gains in the US and the 27th consecutive month with the unemployment rate below 4% – the longest such streak since 1953.” https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/may/03/us-april-jobs-report?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

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     Elizabeth (punkhaiku@mastodon.world)'s status on Friday, 03-May-2024 22:23:59 JST Elizabeth

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     @GottaLaff And Trump just called the job numbers "horrible" 😆

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     HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 03-May-2024 22:25:44 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴

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     • Elizabeth

     @punkhaiku

     #USpol

     In a sense, #TFG is right: a boyant economy has usually been beneficial for the incumbent president in an #election.

     @GottaLaff

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     The Democratic Difference (demdifference@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 05-May-2024 06:08:09 JST The Democratic Difference

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     @GottaLaff

     More detail on today's jobs report:

     • 175K jobs added in April

     • 15.4 million jobs added since Biden took office

     • Black unemployment rate falls significantly in April

     • Overall unemployment stays below 4% for 27th straight month

     • Prime-working-age labor force participation rate hits 20-year high

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     The Democratic Difference (demdifference@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 05-May-2024 06:08:09 JST The Democratic Difference

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     @GottaLaff

     Decision 2024:

     Go back to Trump's #ChaosCrimeAndCorporateGreed
     or
     Continue Biden's #GreatAmericanComeback