
Here's why the rest of the jobs recovery will be bumpy
CNN
Friday's jobs report will shed some light on whether August's disappointing numbers were just a blip — or the start of an unwelcome trend. Either way, the recovery could be bumpy until America gets all the way through the Covid crisis.
"The pandemic has always been in the driver's seat of this recovery," said Nela Richardson, chief economist at ADP, during a call with reporters Wednesday. "The name of the jobs recovery game is still 'uneven'."
Last year, the labor market was quite fragile, and during the colder months, the battered leisure and hospitality industry lost jobs — something that could happen again this year. Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of women left the labor force in September 2020 as children returned to virtual classrooms and parents had to step in as teaching assistants.

Cara Petersen, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s acting enforcement director, resigned from the agency on Tuesday. In an email to colleagues announcing her decision, Petersen slammed the Trump administration’s efforts to dismantle the agency, which was established as a banking watchdog following the 2008 global financial crisis.