Unemployment Ticks Up As Job Growth Beats Expectations
1 sourceUpdated Jul 1, 2026
The U.S. added 272,000 nonfarm payroll jobs in May as the unemployment rate ticked up to 4.0%, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) data released Friday. Economists anticipated that the country would add…
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