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Saturday, June 6, 2020

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What to Make of the Rebound in the U.S. Jobs Report

By BEN CASSELMAN

Many of the gains came in restaurant work as 2.5 million jobs were added in May and the unemployment rate fell to 13.3 percent.

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Falling Jobless Rate Could Imperil Aid Underpinning the Recovery

By JIM TANKERSLEY, EMILY COCHRANE and JEANNA SMIALEK

A surprise jump in the number of people working may give Republican lawmakers less incentive to renew the very programs that have hastened the labor market's rebound.

D.C.'s Mayor Fights for Control of Her City at Trump's Front Door

By ZOLAN KANNO-YOUNGS, JENNIFER STEINHAUER and KENNETH P. VOGEL

Amid tensions with the president over his deployment of federal officers during protests, Washington's mayor had "Black Lives Matter" painted near the White House in an unmistakable assertion of control.

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