Employment: Interesting….

Screams the headline:
Total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 211,000 in April, and the unemployment rate was little changed at 4.4 percent, the U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Job gains occurred in leisure and hospitality, health care and social assistance, financial activities, and mining.
Gee, unlike last month when I said the headline number made no sense given the internals, this time it seems to match up……

The annualized number is

This post was published at Market-Ticker on 2017-05-05.