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Payroll employment edges up by 75,000 in May; unemployment rate remains at 3.6%

06/07/2019

Total nonfarm payroll employment edged up in May (+75,000), and the unemployment rate remained at 3.6 percent. Employment continued to trend up in professional and business services and in health care.
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