Falling Jobless Rate Could Imperil Aid Underpinning the Recovery
| 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. | | | News Analysis 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. | | | 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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| U.S. By DANA GOLDSTEIN The abrupt switch to remote learning wiped out academic gains for many students in America, and widened racial and economic gaps. Catching up in the fall won't be easy. | | | Opinion By JAMELLE BOUIE It is an attack on civil society and democratic accountability. | | |
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