The share of US small businesses saying they’re planning new hires or are having trouble filling jobs fell in May to a six-year low, according to the National Federation of Independent Business.
A seasonally adjusted 9% of owners plan to create new jobs in the next three months, down 4 percentage points from April, and the share reporting they had job openings they couldn’t fill fell by 5 percentage points to 29%, the NFIB said in a release Thursday. Both measures were the lowest since May 2020.
The NFIB figures are at odds with Bureau ...
