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Labor Gains

US Jobs Data: Some Scars from Recession Finally Healing

A UPS employee works inside the company’s Worldport hub in Louisville, Ky. On Friday, May 5, 2017, the U.S. government issued the April jobs report.
(AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

By CHRIS S. RUGABER want full-time jobs reached jobs report suggested that the soft patch in the first expanding some employ-
AP Economics Writer its lowest point in nine years. American businesses are quarter is over,” Michael ees’ hours. During much
WASHINGTON (AP) — A Employers last month add- confident enough in their Gapen, an economist at of the economic recovery,
burst of hiring in April provid- ed 211,000 jobs, more than outlook for customer de- Barclays Capital, said in an the number of part-timers
ed reassurance for the U.S. double the weak showing mand to keep adding jobs email to clients. remained unusually high
economy after a slow start in March, the Labor De- briskly despite a slump in The gradual shift in hiring — one reason why steady
to the year: Job growth re- partment said Friday. And the January-March quarter from part-time to full-time job growth didn’t produce
turned to a healthy pace. the unemployment rate when the economy barely work is an encouraging sharp gains in pay or con-
Unemployment hit a de- dipped to 4.4 percent from grew. one. It suggests that many sumer spending.
cade low. And the number 4.5 percent in March. The jobs report “does in- businesses are meeting ris-
of part-time workers who Taken as a whole, the April crease our confidence that ing customer demand by Continued on Page 7

Trump Signs $1 Trillion Spending Bill, Keeps Government Open

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE law behind closed doors at his in additional Pentagon spend- aid accounts. Republicans and
Associated Press home in central New Jersey, well ing obtained by Trump, as well as Democrats who negotiated the
BRANCHBURG, N.J. (AP) — Presi- ahead of a midnight Friday dead- $1.5 billion in emergency spend- measure Trump signed Friday had
dent Donald Trump signed his line for some government opera- ing for border security, though not successfully defended other ac-
first piece of major legislation on tions to begin shutting down. But for the wall he has vowed to build counts Trump had targeted for
Friday, a $1 trillion spending bill other budget battles lie ahead along the U.S.-Mexico border to spending cuts, such as foreign
to keep the government operat- as the White House and Congress deter illegal immigration. Trump aid, the Environmental Protection
ing through September. The bill hammer out a spending plan for also wants a huge military build- Agency, support for the arts and
cleared both houses of Congress the fiscal year that starts Oct. 1. up matched by cuts to popular economic development grants,
this week and Trump signed it into Republicans praised $15 billion domestic programs and foreign among others.q