Friday, June 1, 2012

Envisioning Employment: Employment Situation May 2012

Today’s Employment Situation Report indicated that in May, net nonfarm payrolls increased only slightly with private nonfarm payrolls adding just 69,000 jobs and the unemployment rate increased slightly to 8.2% over the same period.

Net private sector jobs increased 0.07% since last month climbing 1.78% above the level seen a year ago but but remained a whopping 3.95% below the peak level of employment seen in December 2007.