Leisure and hospitality was the top category for job gains, adding 88,000 jobs. Health care and social assistance was the second-biggest category last month, adding 68,000. The retail trade and transportation and warehousing categories both lost jobs last month. Retail and e-commerce companies have struggled with inventory management and the shift in consumer spending after an online shopping boom during the pandemic.’So we’ve got some sectors that are still in recovery, and other sectors I think that got ahead of their skis,’ Betsey Stevenson, a University of Michigan professor and former chief economist of the U.S. Labor Department, said. Despite the headline beat and strength in the service sector, there were still weak spots in the economy. . . .
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