According to numbers derived from a survey of businesses, the economy added 160,000 jobs in April, the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced Friday. There were 171,000 jobs created in the private sector, but government shed 11,000 jobs. This marks the 67th consecutive month of job growth. But it was well below the 200,000+ consensus of economic analysts surveyed earlier in the week. Wages rose to 2.5 percent over a year ago. The official unemployment rate, which the bureau calculates from a different survey and labels U3, remained unchanged at 5.0 percent.