US businesses last month added workers at the slowest pace since pandemic
February’s hiring rate, at 3.1%, clocked in at the worst pace since the early days of the pandemic and before that since 2011, Labor Department data released Tuesday showed. US hires plunged to 4.8 million last month, down by 387,000 from a year ago, according to the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) from…
