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W
e’ve officially reached June, and April—chock-full of economic policy chaos thanks to on-and-off tariffs announcements—might feel like the di
stant past.But the latest Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics is taking us back to that month. Despite concern from businesses, workers, and consumers over President Trump’s “liberation day” tariffs announcement and subsequent backtracking in April, hiring and labor demand
remained fairly strong.Diving into the data. Employers had 7.4 million job openings posted at the end of April, an increase from an upwardly revised 7.2 million postings in March, and beating economists’ estimates of