11/03/2021
Analysts expect an average of 425,000 jobs to be added the month and the unemployment rate to edge lower as COVID fears diminish and strong wage gains in some sectors attract workers to the millions of available open positions.
Labor shortages, supply-chain disruptions, severe weather conditions and a rise in COVID cases during the summer each weighed on economic output recently. The economy grew by 2.0% annualized in the third quarter of 2021, according to the advance estimate released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis l...