STEVE INSKEEP, Host: NPR's business news starts with a disappointing employment report.</s>STEVE INSKEEP, Host: On the surface, it sounds like good news. The economy added 431,000 jobs in May. It's the biggest number of jobs added in a single month in the last decade. And the new jobs in May did bring down the overall unemployment rate to 9.7 percent. But almost all the new hires were for government temp jobs, working on the census. The pace of hiring by private employers actually slowed down.
The economy added 431,000 jobs in May, the most added in a single month in the past decade. But almost all of those new hires were for government temp jobs, working on the Census. The pace of hiring by private employers actually slowed. Still, the overall unemployment rate did fall to 9.7 percent.