The partial government shutdown could break the longest month-to-month streak of job growth in U. S. history, The Wall Street Journal reports. The…
The partial government shutdown could break the longest month-to-month streak of job growth in U. S. history, The Wall Street Journal reports.
The U. S. economy has experienced 99 straight months of job growth, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data. The streak began under former President Barack Obama in October 2010. (RELATED: December Jobs Report: 312,000 Jobs Added, Unemployment Slightly Rises)
“The January employment number could be pretty ugly,” Moody’s Analytics economist Ryan Sweet told TheWSJ.
About 380,000 federal employees were intended to be put on unpaid leave, based on plans federal officials made before the government shutdown began on midnight of Dec.
