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US job market's modest improvement may be stalling

by AP Economics Writer
| June 26, 2020 12:03 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of laid-off workers seeking U.S. unemployment aid barely fell last week, and the reopening of small businesses has leveled off — evidence that the job market's gains may have stalled just as a surge in coronavirus cases is endangering an economic recovery.

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