Jobs Numbers May Indicate Slowing Economy

NPR | By Jack Speer

Published June 2, 2006 at 12:13 PM EDT

Employers added 75,000 jobs in May, the Labor Department reports. It was the smallest increase since October 2005. At the same time, the nation's unemployment rate dipped to 4.6 percent, its lowest reading since the summer of 2001.

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