Click here to find out more! Job growth weakens in May despite surge in census hiring

Reporting from Washington —
A burst of hiring of temporary census workers helped push down the unemployment rate in May, but the nation's private-sector employers added a mere 41,000 new jobs last month, the Labor Department said Friday.


The jobless rate edged down to 9.7% in May from 9.9% in April, but that was because the federal government added 411,000 jobs for the decade population count. Those jobs were expected and will disappear quickly over the summer.

Business payrolls increased by only 41,000 in May -- a fraction of the 175,000 or so jobs that many analysts had projected. By comparison, the nation added 218,000 new private-sector jobs in April and 158,000 in March.

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