May showed biggest jobless jump since February 1986
Saturday, June 7, 2008
WASHINGTON — Pink slips piled up and jobs disappeared into thin air in May as the nation's unemployment rate rose to 5.5 percent in the biggest one-month jump in decades. Wall Street swooned, and the White House said President Bush was considering new proposals to revive the economy.
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