Is the slight uptick over the past eight months in health care's share of employment a signal of something bigger? (Photo: Shutterstock)
Of the 263,000 nonfarm payroll jobs that the Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates were created in April, 27,000 were in health care.
This is not really news: Since the beginning of 2015, the average monthly gain in health-care jobs has been 28,959. Since 2010, it's been 23,893; since 2000, it's been 24,041; since 1990, it's been 23,709. Only four of the 351 months since January 1990 have seen declines in health-care employment.
That kind of consistency is in itself somewhat newsworthy, though. Most industries don't behave like that! Here's the growth in health-care employment since 1990 compared with job growth in the rest of the economy:
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