U.S. Economy Added Few Jobs In May
The economy added 54,000 jobs in the month of May, and the unemployment rate rose a tenth of a percentage point to 9.1 percent, the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced today.
That makes May the second month in a row where the unemployment rate has risen instead of fallen, and the weakest month for job gains since January.
The number of long-term unemployed people—those who had been out of work for 27 weeks or longer—rose to 6.2
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