U.S. Economy Added 2.5M Jobs In May | Morning Joe | MSNBC

The U.S. economy gained 2.5 million jobs in May and the unemployment rate dropped to 13.3 percent. Steve Rattner and Chris Liu discuss. Aired on 6/5/2020.

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[Fannielouhamervideo]

Define "job"...my son is back at work with cut hours, cut pay, and less commission...does that count as a job? 🙄

[youwill]

They didn't "add" jobs. The people on furlough was called back due to the reopening.

[TheBlackBison]

30 million people on UI, there's roughly 130million workers in the us economy normally.. that's 23% of the workforce.. 13% unemployment is a joke

[pietrusso]

No retail
No tourism
No events
... where did these magic jobs come from lmao

[elkhair]

The 50% of unemployed that couldn’t get their money just gave up and dropped off the roles. BS numbers.

[noahbowie]

Unemployment is still over 10 million. Stop acting like this is a complete and immediate recovery

[michaelmarceau]

"added" jobs is BS. 2.5m low paying jobs went back to work along with seasonal work.

[linetsers]

The experts who study this daily can't believe this Something very fishy going on

[richardalexander]

Knowing the Cult tRump administration the numbers are bogus...this is real fake news.

[jbknight]

That's about how many people have had to take jobs delivering food and groceries. Not real paying jobs

[moultonlavagaming]

sure its a bit of good news but we lost 30million plus jobs in the prior months. Also Joe the unemployment rate is higher than what it states

[manuelescobedo]

Where I live people are still unemployed, so this is bs.

[doclewis]

Technically, those aren't jobs added. Those are jobs that people went back to doing NOT new jobs. These figures mean nothing.

[erikitter]

When numbers look very very strange - look harder. It is called investigative journalism.

[rgwak]

t'rump: We're back to being great now!
40 million Americans: We're still unemployed though.
110, 000 Americans: We're still dead though.
t'rump: **stares blankly** We're back to being great!!!!
America: SIgh. 🤦‍♂️

[linetsers]

Something 's not adding up There was just 40 million people out of work

[stard]

Something is off. Perhaps it will help if experts actually compare apples to apples and terms to terms.

[cobbler]

Economy and stock market booming in the midst of a pandemic. Something doesn't make sense ?

[moultonlavagaming]

hmm, the numbers seem weird. The expectation was a loss in jobs but oddly jobs were added. Seems weird to me

[sarahmccoy]

Only about 40 million more jobs needed, Don.