The spin-free reality underlying the jobs report for May, with charts

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The economy added 172,000 new payroll jobs in May, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday, as businesses shrugged off the energy supply shock from the war with Iran. The unemployment rate remained at 4.3%. Forecasters had expected payroll job growth to slow to 85,000. Instead, it accelerated, and previous months’ job gains were revised […]