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• What's behind the massive jobs gain for March?

  Even after adjusting for the rebound from February’s bad weather the jobs gains for the U.S. economy are huge, said Christopher Low, chief economist at FHN Financial. “It’s huge because employers are growing in confidence that we’re finally putting the pandemic behind us,” Low said. “We have big gains in business services, in education and health care. It’s really widespread.” Low also added that the data shows employers are replacing temporary positions with permanent ones.

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• A year into COVID, child care issues still affect mothers’ employment

  by Meghan McCarty Carino

  

  The Brookings Institution says those mothers, especially Black and Latinx women, are still struggling to regain jobs.

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• For Broadway performers, a year of pandemic unemployment and reflection

  by Sabri Ben-Achour and Rose Conlon

  

  As Broadway eyes reopening, a performer reflects on a year offstage.

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