Unemployment Rate in May Stays at 6.3% as 217,000 Jobs are Added

In what is being called hailed almost universally as a “solid all-around report,” the U.S. Labor Department said that employers added 217,000 workers in May 2014 and that the official unemployment rate remained unchanged at 6.3 percent.

The job gains were fairly broad with the professional and business services industry adding 55,000 jobs, healthcare jobs expanding by 34,000, social assistance programs adding 21,000 workers, and transportation and warehousing employment rising by 16,000.