Payroll

Job growth was weaker than expected in February as the Trump administration began to slash the federal workforce.Nonfarm payrolls increased by a seasonally adjusted 151,000 on the month, better than the downwardly revised 125,000 in…

Los Angeles County’s unemployment rate fell to 5.2% in May from a revised 5.4% in April. Employers in the county added nearly 10,000 jobs to their payrolls as more people resumed normal activities despite the pandemic, according to…