Hiring stalled in November, with businesses adding only 210,000 jobs
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Job growth stalled in November, with employers adding a disappointing 210,000 jobs last month, the Labor Department said Friday. That represents a sharp slowdown from October, when companies added more than twice that number of new hires.
Economists had forecast that employers had hired 535,000 workers last month. The unemployment rate fell to 4.2% from 4.6% in October, the Labor Department said on Friday.
Millions of Americans have been slow to return to the job market, with about 4.7 million fewer people in the labor force than prior to the pandemic. Employers are raising wages to attract job candidates, but some workers may still be hesitant to return to work given high COVID-19 rates across much of the nation.
Ashley White received her earliest combat action badge from the United States Army soon after the first lieutenant arrived in Afghanistan. The silver military award, recognizing soldiers who've been personally engaged by an attacker during conflict, was considered an achievement in and of itself as well as an affirming rite of passage for the newly deployed. White had earned it for using her own body to shield a group of civilian women and children from gunfire that broke out in the midst of her third mission in Kandahar province. All of them survived. She never mentioned the badge to anyone in her battalion.