April 2024 BLS Employment Situation — Skilled Trades Sustained Toil Drives Growth

Last week, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released the April 2024 Employment Situation, their comprehensive overview of how job growth and shrinkage month-over-month can be used as supplemental context for economic conditions. The report showed that there were only 175,000 jobs added to the labor market last month, a significantly lower amount of growth […]