Don’t look now but the unemployment rate creeped up again to 3.9 percent in April, the latest data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows, rising from its April 2023 low of 3.4 percent. With it, the unemployment level itself is up 777,000 to nearly 6.5 million. A year ago, it was 5.7 million. The employment side of the equation, the last peak was in Nov. 2023 in BLS’ household survey, at 161.86 million, and is now down to about 161.49 million in April, as it still keeps clunking around that... Read this story
