Economic recovery continues - Federal executions suspended - Canada’s Indigenous reckoning

The uptick in jobs exceeded estimates for the first time since the Covid-19 vaccine began to be widely distributed in the US. April was a particularly dour month in comparison, with the country adding 266,000 new jobs that month – far below the 1m expected. The latest rise still leaves the number of people in work or looking for a job 3m below the peak preceding the pandemic.
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As a majority of states have fully lifted their coronavirus social distancing and masking restrictions, more Americans are traveling and eating out. A bulk of the jobs that were added in June came from the leisure and hospitality sector, with nearly 200,000 jobs added to food and drink services.
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Many businesses have started offering increased wages and hefty signing bonuses in an attempt to entice new employees to work. One Burger King in Pennsylvania put a sign on its storefront advertising a $1,500 bonus to new hires. Average hourly earnings rose 3.6% compared with last June.