U.S. employers added only 75,000 new workers to their payrolls last month, far fewer than expected and the weakest gain since hurricane-depressed October, but the unemployment rate slipped to a five-year low of 4.6 percent, the Labor Department said on Friday. Outside of the drop in the unemployment rate, however, the overall tone of the jobs report was weaker than economists had expected.
See "U.S. Employers Added 75,000 Jobs in May, Weaker Than Expected", Reuters, The New York Times, June 1, 2006