alt.hn

6/5/2026 at 2:42:06 PM

Employment increases by 172,000 in May; unemployment rate unchanged at 4.3%

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm

by JumpCrisscross

6/5/2026 at 4:25:19 PM

Last year's gains of 1.5M jobs created was revised down to just 150k. Can anyone explain to me why that happened and why this isn't the same?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/largest-jobs-revisio...

by xrd

6/5/2026 at 5:48:56 PM

There are multiple data sources. The faster ones are less accurate than the ones with more lag time, so the governments policy has always been to use the fastest data and modify it as better data comes in.

by HWR_14

6/5/2026 at 3:50:23 PM

The bulk of the gains (~70%) were in

Leisure and hospitality (+70k) Health care (+35k), and Social assistance (+12k)

Not exactly great news for the medium to long term.

by khriss