KQED Nightly Business Report June 4, 2016
A near halt, surprising just about everyone from wall street to main street to washington. Especially because the labor market had been a pillar of strength for the economy. Just 38,000 jobs were created last month, well below the estimate of 158,000. The Unemployment Rate dropped to 4. 7 , but that was because nearly 500,000 people stopped looking for work. The one bright spot may be the slight, and i do mean slight, increase in average Hourly Earnings. Hampton pearson has more on mays big jobs miss. Reporter the slowest monthly job growth in nearly six years shocked the markets and market wa...