US hiring stumbles in November as economy adds just 210,000 new jobs
Economists expected payrolls to increase by 550,000 in November. U.S. job growth significantly undershot expectations in November, suggesting that difficulty in attracting new workers is weighing on the labor market’s recovery from the pandemic, even as COVID-19 cases dissipated nationwide. The Labor Department said in its monthly payroll report released Friday that payrolls in November…