The Briefing Room
General Category => National/Breaking News => Topic started by: 240B on June 01, 2018, 10:12:28 pm
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Lifezette
by Brendan Kirby
Updated 01 Jun 2018 at 11:57 AM
America’s surging economy added another 223,000 jobs last month, knocking the employment rate down to 3.8 percent — the lowest in a half-century, the government reported Friday.
The Department of Labor also revised upward the combined job totals for March and April, determining that 15,000 more people got jobs than initially estimated.
President Donald Trump hinted at good news with a tweet Friday morning indicating that he was looking forward to seeing the report. The tweet prompted a cacophony of complaints that the president violated a rule prohibiting federal employees from commenting on the jobs report until an hour after its release.
It was hard for people to complain about the substance, though.
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