Jobs

Hires declined 31% to 3.5 million.

That would be the sharpest annual decline since GDP fell 11.6% in 1946.

The company’s current global workforce is 70,000.

That represents 16% of Wyoming’s total workforce eligible for the unemployment insurance program.

The government said Friday that the economy added 2.5 million jobs last month.

It shows that scattered rehiring is offsetting only some of the ongoing layoffs with the economy mired in a recession.

The virus forced employers to shutter offices, factories, gyms and schools.

The national jobless rate was 14.7% in April.

Roughly 38.6 million people have now filed for jobless aid.

The number of first-time applications has now declined for six straight weeks.