Is Trump Creating Jobs? February Unemployment Report Expected To Show Hiring Increase
March 11, 2017
There’s a lot riding on Friday’s jobs report from the Department of Labor. Topmost is whether it will be good enough for the Federal Reserve to hike interest rates at its meeting next week.
Expectations were high for a positive report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics for the first full month of the Trump presidency in light of Wednesday’s ADP jobs report indicating 298,000 private sector jobs were created last month, eclipsing economists’ predictions.