The April Jobs Numbers Were So Bad That CNBC’s Steve Liesman Thought It Was A Typo

Many commentators were surprised by the disappointing April jobs numbers but none more so than CNBC’s Steve Liesman, who had to do a double-take while reading them during a Friday Morning segment of Squawk Box.

The Department of Labor data released Friday showed that the U.S. economy is still 8.2 million jobs short of pre-lockdown levels, with a reported increase of just 266,000 jobs in April.

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