What’s topping the Senate’s antitrust to-do list
Presented by Uber
With help from Cristiano Lima, Emily Birnbaum and Alexandra S. Levine
PROGRAMMING NOTE: Morning Tech will not publish on Monday, May 31. We ll be back on our normal schedule on Tuesday, June 1.
Editor’s Note: Morning Tech is a free version of POLITICO Pro Technology s morning newsletter, which is delivered to our subscribers each morning at 6 a.m. The POLITICO Pro platform combines the news you need with tools you can use to take action on the day’s biggest stories.
Quick Fix MT exclusive: The Senate Judiciary antitrust panel gave MT a first look at what it hopes to tackle this summer.
Print this article
Business groups are blaming President Joe Biden after the most recent jobs report showed a far lower number of new jobs compared to what experts predicted. The disappointing jobs report makes it clear that paying people not to work is dampening what should be a stronger jobs market, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce
said in a statement shortly after the new jobs report was released on Friday.
Experts predicted new jobs would boom as the coronavirus vaccine became more available and coronavirus-related lockdowns and restrictions were lifted.
But Biden’s Department of Labor reported that 266,000 new jobs were created in the month of April, well short of economists’ prediction that 1 million new jobs would be created.