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Jobs report: Only 69,000 jobs added, jobless rate rises to 8.2%; Update: New Romney ad attacks on jobs, Solyndra

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“Huge miss.”


Jim Pethokoukis called this a “huge miss” on Twitter, and he’s right.  Analysts expected the US economy to add 150,000 jobs in May.  Instead, we saw only a net gain of 69,000 jobs, and the jobless rate went up slightly to 8.2%: Nonfarm payroll employment changed little in May (+69,000), and the unemployment rate was [...]

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