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May Jobs Report Shows Unemployment Hitting 16-Year Low

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The unemployment rate fell to 4.3 percent last month, according to Friday's numbers from the Labor Department. It's the lowest level since 2001, but the economy added fewer jobs than economists expected — 138,000.

Here & Now's Jeremy Hobson speaks with Michael Regan (@Reganonymous) of Bloomberg News about the May jobs report.

This segment aired on June 2, 2017.

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