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Economists expect 218,000 new jobs

by Matthew Yglesias
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217,000 new jobs were created in May
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Economists polled by Reuters are expecting that tomorrow’s BLS data will tell us the economy added 218,000 new jobs in May. That would be a pretty good result, but still a bit of a slowdown from April.

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