. >> brangham: april marsed the 91st ctive month of job growth.t's seven-plus years in a row, and the longest streak on record for the u.s. average job owth this year is around 200,000 new jobs a month. that's up a bit from last yf r's average2,000. e d when president trump was speaking befe n.r.a. today, he said the tax cuts are part of the reason. di>> we are seeing the ince resultss a result of our masse tax cuts. and everybody is benefiting. and everybody is happy. we've created 3.2 million jobs. unheard of. if we would have said that three ycaears ago in thaign, people would have said "what a horrible exaggeration." >> brangham: at the same time, companies reported a very profitable first quarter this year in fact, according to the "wall street journal," it was the best in seven years-- due in part to pre-tax profits and smaller tax gbills. but wawth remains sluggish, and there are questions about whether these profits are leading to the kind of hiring that was also promised as part of the tax law. jim tankersley covers this for the "new yk t