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Stocks opened higher this morning as the Labor Department reported somewhat stronger job growth in April than forecasters expected.
NPR's Scott Horsley reports the Dow Jones Industrial Average jumped about 320 points in early trading.
Job growth slowed last month,
but not as much as analysts had feared as President Trump's worldwide tariffs went into effect.
U.S. employers added 177,000 jobs in April.
That's down only slightly from the previous month.
The unemployment rate held steady.
at 4.2 percent even as more than half a million people joined or rejoined the workforce.
Jobs were added in health care,
restaurants and construction in April while retailers and factories cut workers last month.
The federal government also cut about 9,000 jobs but that was more than offset by job gains in state and local government.