Jobs Report Friday: Payrolls Expected to Grow as Labor Market Stabilizes

On Friday morning, the Bureau of Labor Statistics will release the May employment report, offering the nation a mirror in which to examine not just its economic vitality, but the uneven distribution of that vitality. Payrolls are expected to grow and unemployment to hold steady — signals of resilience — yet beneath those aggregate measures lies a more fractured reality, where certain workers remain stranded at the margins of a recovery that has not reached them. The report arrives as a test of whether the American labor market has found durable footing, or whether its apparent strength conceal