The May jobs report landed with the opposite punch of April’s: 559,000 new jobs, unemployment dipping. Headlines hailed a “rebound.”
The truth is more complicated. The recovery is uneven: white-collar jobs snapped back faster, while service and childcare lag. Millions are still out of work, and wages aren’t rising enough to cover rent spikes and groceries.
The danger is the same as always: leaders will cherry-pick numbers to prove their ideology. For working families, numbers don’t matter. Bills do.