Analysis: Is New York's jobs market an asterisk?
The U.S. economy added more than 500,000 jobs in January, significantly defying expectations amid concerns in the private and government sectors of an economy and sharply increasing interest rates.
But in New York, a very different picture on the jobs front has been the theme since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic: Jobs have slowly come back, and the state may not recoup all of the 2 million jobs lost in the immediate shutdown in March 2020 for several more years.