A retired Ripon College economist says the latest jobs numbers show the economic recovery is slowing. The U.S. economy added 661,000 jobs in September, while the unemployment rate fell from 8.4 to 7.9-percent. But economist Paul Schoofs says one reason the unemployment rate declined was because Americans were leaving the labor force. “That’s another obvious sign of a slow down in the recovery,” Schoofs told WFDL news. “It’s additional jobs, which is a good thing, but for the first time since April it’s less than a million.”
