The economy added 379,000 jobs in February
Source: Washington Post
The U.S. economy added 379,000 jobs in February, a level that surpassed analysts’ estimates but remains below the rate needed to regain the more than nine million jobs lost since last year.
The unemployment rate dropped a tenth of a percentage point to 6.2 percent.
The report, which covers the first full month of the Biden presidency, is a reflection of an economy that is still very much bogged down by the pandemic. Economists and public health experts are more optimistic about the coming months, as the rate of vaccinations improves.
February saw improving caseloads and re-openings for businesses like restaurants and bars in states like California and New York. But many industries, such as tourism and hospitality, now employ far less workers than they did before the pandemic.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/03/05/february-jobs-report-unemployment-2021/
How to navigate the landmine of "breaking headlines" without story links but finally got it done.
Stay tuned for the DU economy analysts to provide the deep dives into the data!
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There should be good jobs for nurses to administer vaccines. Workplaces are getting safer as many healthcare workers and essential workers were first to get vaccinated. The road to recovery is looking good except for a few stupid red states who ended their mask mandates too early.
the pandemic has actually generated a whole new sector of jobs in the healthcare industry, including testing and now vaccine production/distribution. There also may be those opportunities for development of all the databases necessary to track those vaccines (where hopefully that sector could get an infusion of money to do that work via state funding that is finally being included in the COVID relief package, and that gets passed by both chambers, and signed into law).
The guys who posted in #1 & #2 have been combing through the BLS data so they might have a better handle on which sectors of the economy are seeing growth. I would think the whole travel/hospitality industry (including support for entertainment) is pretty much killed but slowly coming back. But what is "new" should be that health sector. It might be a temporary "blip" in the scheme of the next couple years, but I expect the need will be there at least for the first half of this year, if not the rest of this year.
The other sector that is slowly going to grow is the marijuana/hemp industry, where several more states have legalized it for recreational use (being in PA, including my next door state of New Jersey). That means growers, processors, and distributors.
And certainly the logistics of packages and moving them around the country, has grown exponentially, and that is definitely having an impact on hiring - see Amazon (who is still opening up all kinds of warehouses and other distribution points, around the country, although that is no longer "in the news" ). 
