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US April job growth: Don't credit McDonald's
Some serious misinformation about the government’s April employment report is floating around the Internet. McDonald’s Corp. is erroneously getting credit for 62,000 of the 268,000 net new private-sector jobs created last month, or 23% of the total. Most of the people referring to the McDonald’s figure in Internet forum comments seem to be using it to disparage the hiring total, which was the largest private-sector job gain for any month since February 2006. Mcd McDonald’s did hire 62,000 people last month, but that was on April 19, in a one-day recruiting program nationwide. Those hires wouldn’t have ... (full story)