AP | Unemployment hits 49-year low as US employers step up hiring: 3.6%
"'We have entered a very strong and durable prosperity cycle,' said Larry Kudlow, director of the White House's National Economic Council. ...And the unemployment rate for veterans of the Iraq and Afghan wars dropped to 1.7%, also a record low."
BLS | Employment Situation Summary

The jobless rates for teenagers (13.0 percent) and Blacks (6.7 percent) showed little or no change. ... long-term unemployed was little changed at 1.2 million in April and accounted for 21.1 percent of the unemployed. ... The labor force participation rate declined by 0.2 percentage point to 62.8 percent ... Professional and business services added 76,000 jobs

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