35k of the weakness was due to the Verizon strike that’s been settled since, but it still was a weak number even without that factor adding to it.
Fed prolly cannot go in June now, as they’d seem to have wished to do.
“”””35k of the weakness was due to the Verizon strike that’s been settled since, but it still was a weak number even without that factor adding to it.””””
I don’t know what the strike would have to do with anything. People who are on strike cannot collect unemployment benefits nor are they considered unemployed.