U.S. Hotel Unemployment Hits New Pandemic Low for a Bad Reason

The U.S. hotel industry unemployment rate is finally pacing with the national average, but this doesn’t mean jobs are getting filled. American hotels only added 6,600 jobs last month, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. That may not sound like much for an industry notoriously starved for employees, but it was enough to drop the hotel unemployment rate to 5.5 percent — the lowest seen during the pandemic and the closest it has come to the national average during the health crisis.
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