Like a gender reveal gone wrong, last month’s employment report delivered an unexpected surprise. Economists estimated 975,000 new jobs would be created in April. The United States Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported there were just 266,000. That’s a big miss. Economists, analysts, and the media offered a wealth of theories to explain the shortfall. These included:   Pandemic fear. A March U.S. Census survey found 4.2 million people aren’t working because they fear getting or spreading the coronavirus. That’s more than half of the 8.2 million non-farm jobs that need to be recovered to reach pre-pandemic employment levels. Too-generous unemployment benefits**. Another theory