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A hiring sign is displayed at a home improvement store in Northbrook, Ill., Thursday, May 5, 2022. America’s employers added 428,000 jobs in April, extending a streak of solid hiring that has defied punishing inflation, chronic supply shortages, the Russian war against Ukraine and much higher borrowing costs. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)

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US added 428,000 jobs in April despite surging inflation
May 6, 2022 10:50 a.m.

US added 428,000 jobs in April despite surging inflation

he economy’s hiring gains have been strikingly consistent in the face of the worst inflation in four decades