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The figure surpassed economists’ consensus estimates for 130,000 net new jobs added last month, according to FactSet. Employers added a revised 117,000 in February.

Feb. 25Bank of America will end “aspirational” targets for diversity hiring and replaced the word “diversity” with “talent” and “opportunity” in an annual report, Bloomberg reported.

Federal hiring declined amid sweeping cuts to the government’s workforce, though many of those layoffs aren’t showing up yet in official figures due to leave and severance policies and routine ...

We make all employment decisions—including recruitment, hiring, compensation, training, promotion, transfer, discipline, termination, and other personnel matters—without regard to race ...