美国4月份失业率略微下降，但美国政府星期五表示，美国这个世界最大经济体的就业增长表现平平。
美国劳工部表示，美国4月份失业率为8.1%，比3月份下降了零点一个百分点。但连续两个月都有更多的劳动力离开了就业市场，因此他们没有被计算入美国的就业统计中。
与此同时，美国雇主上月新雇用了11万5千名员工，但这个数字远远低于经济学家预计的16万。4月份的数字也低于3月份新增的12万工作岗位的数字，显示美国企业招工的速度明显放缓。今年年初，美国每月新增工作岗位超出25万。
美国的经济状况成为今年总统大选的主要议题。美国总统大选将在11月举行。
The U.S. jobless rate edged lower in April, but the government said Friday that job growth in the world's largest economy was modest.
The Labor Department said the unemployment rate fell a tenth of a percentage point from March to 8.1 percent last month. But for the second straight month, more workers left the labor market and thus were not counted in the U.S. employment survey.
At the same time, employers added another 115,000 workers to their payrolls last month, but that was well below the 160,000 figure that economists had predicted. The April figure also fell below the 154,000 jobs added in March and signaled that corporations have markedly slowed their hiring. The American economy had added more than 250,000 jobs a month early in the year.
The state of the U.S. economy has emerged as the dominant issue in the country's presidential election campaign, heading to the vote in November.
