NJ adds 17,800 jobs, with unemployment and labor force down
New Jersey's economy has now regained nearly 93% of the jobs it lost during the shutdown days in the first two months of the pandemic.
charles steindel
NJ adds 13,600 jobs in May – but still down 314,000 in pandemic
At the rate jobs have been added so far in 2021, it would take until the end of 2023 to recover pandemic-era losses. But things might speed up going forward.