Job growth totals 253,000 in April, beating expectations even as the U.S. economy slows

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And the new warehouse and delivery jobs are a big reason why hospitality and leisure is still behind. People left restaurant jobs for Amazon and other Amazon like jobs. We've seen it big time in my city where restaurants are short staffed and their owners can't find people. Kitchen help especially. Well, cook jobs are not great. It's really hard work, with erratic hours, and few if any benefits. If you are a cook, you get cut when it gets slow, so getting close to 40 hours is tough, and the pay is usually not great.

People decided working in a warehouse, no matter how hard the work, for $20 an hour with some benefits and a steady 40 hour plus work week was preferrable to restaurant work. Cooks in my city aren't making $15 an hour on average, so it's no surprise that people got better paying jobs.