On Friday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported that in April, the United States employers added 428K employments, continuing the streak of solid recruitment that has resisted rising inflation, continuing shortages of supplies, and Moscow’s brutal war against the post-Soviet country of Ukraine.

That is undoubtedly good news that the United States remains 1.2M employments in the hole from the early times of the deadly Coronavirus pandemic when approximately 22M employments disappeared in just sixty days. The US Department of Labor said that the percentage of unemployed individuals, which had been anticipated to drop to pandemic lows, held stable at 3.6 percent. That is just an increase above the pre-COVID-19 pandemic level of 3.5 percent.

Today, @BLS_gov reported the American economy added 428,000 jobs in the month of April, and the unemployment rate was 3.6%, unchanged from March.

This sustained job growth and historic, worker-centered recovery has delivered results for America’s families. pic.twitter.com/Zt81gP60fH

— Secretary Marty Walsh (@SecMartyWalsh) May 6, 2022

Moreover, it was the sixteenth consecutive month of employment growth and the twelfth consecutive month that over four hundred thousand employments were generated, but advances have started to moderate. In April, the majority of the vacancies were created in the Leisure and Hospitality Supersector. In addition, industries in the warehousing and storage subsector, manufacturing, and transport industry also added numerous employments.

Persistent Inequalities

Employees and workforces continued resuming offices, and the rate of US workers working remotely amid the COVID-19 pandemic dropped to 7.7 percent last month from ten percent in March 2022. So even though the April toll was larger than 391K, which economic experts had foretold, the slowdown in employment growth is no amazement.

Furthermore, Daniel Zhao, Glassdoor Senior Economist and Data Scientist, said they’re in for a slower 2022. Zhao added that the United States is on track to go back to pre-pandemic employment rates in June, which would put them at nearly thirty months after the deadly pandemic started. In comparison, it took more than five years following the Global Financial Crisis 2008 to return to pre-recession job creation levels. That stated, not all is quite return to normal in America.

Unemployment is still much higher for Black employees, for example. At 5.9 percent, the non-White joblessness rate fell to its lowest since Nov. 2019 last month, but it’s still near to two-times the 3.2 percent of White employees.