New York State gains 5,600 jobs in April, year-over-year growth at 0.8% (U.S. growth 1.4%).

In April 2017, New York State’s private sector job count increased by 4,700, or 0.1%, to 8,032,300, according to preliminary figures released today by the New York State Department of Labor. Since the end of the State’s recession in late 2009, New York has added more than one million private sector jobs. Continue Reading.