- Unemployment notches up to 9.1% in May as employers add just 54,000 to payrolls, By Don Lee, June 3, 2011, Los Angeles Times: “The nation’s job market took a turn for the worse last month as employers abruptly curbed their hiring and the unemployment rate edged up to 9.1%, the Labor Department said Friday. The disappointing report provided the latest and strongest evidence of a sputtering economic recovery. In recent days, various data have pointed to a slowdown in manufacturing and consumer spending, as well as persistent weakness in the depressed housing market…”
- Hiring in U.S. slowed in May with 54,000 jobs added, By Catherine Rampell, June 3, 2011, New York Times: “After several months of strong job growth, hiring in the United States slowed sharply in May, suggesting the economy may be running out of steam once again. The Labor Department reported on Friday that the nation added 54,000 nonfarm payroll jobs last month, after an increase of about 220,000 jobs in each of the three previous months. The gain in May was about a third of what economists had been forecasting. The unemployment rate, meanwhile, edged up to 9.1 percent from 9.0 percent in April…”
Poverty-related issues in the news, from the Institute for Research on Poverty