May Job Reports Reveals U.S. Employment Still Below Pre-Pandemic Levels

The latest job report is out, showing overall wages growing by 5.2 percent this year while the inflation rate reached 8.3 percent in April. NBC News’ Jacob Ward is joined by the editor-in-chief of Investopedia Caleb Silver to discuss how many Americans are feeling the burden of these higher costs.
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Me: I just died from covid. Boss: You're still coming in though right?

[@TomikaKelly]

Somebody said their job bailed them out of jail just so they could come in for their shift ! 💀

[@fmj-j2327]

Billions sent to Ukraine 🇺🇦 while Americans line up at food banks

[@djpomare]

Protest outside Oil company CEO homes until the price goes down ! This is not a supply issue, this is supply at higher cost exploitation. American corporations are taking advantage of inflation as a cover to increase their prices and profits.

[@rack9458]

Prices are up due to Potato Joe's action to cut domestic production and buy foreign oil!

[@robertsmith1865]

@@rack9458 America has been buying foreign oil since the forever

[@NashHinton]

@@rack9458 Peak oil. The pipeline was scrapped because it turns out tar sands are a big joke. Oil CEOs' days are numbered and they might take the country down with them if we let them. This day was coming and we should have invested in renewables back in the 1970s, but we postponed it because oil companies would rather fund trillion dollar wars to steal oil.

[@rack9458]

@@NashHinton Renewables will not be effective until we have battery storage. And yes, when you cut supply your raise prices. Thank you President Potato head!

[@SuperJK-Man]

I’ve worked many jobs and I am still poor, working poor. My health went downward because of stress to stay afloat. I’m ready to be homeless and happy where my life expectancy would be greater than my current condition. It seems to pay off better being homeless as many big cities reward them than the hard working folks struggling.

[@aprilrandolph1]

Disconnected, peculiar, unexpected and unusual I know those in four other languages positive sounding.

[@sarijmerrick8518]

I’m about ready to file . Yay me can’t afford to go to work ! Bidens decision to blame Putin when he sold the gas line to Putin . 😂 . Yah not buying it . Biden better get in his big rig he use to drive and start delivering formula and food to the stores . Many trucking companies are struggling but truckin Joe has lots of money .

[@LoolJohn]

Fantastic analysis

[@mepulley7913]

People do not want to put up with ridiculous office politics, traffic commutes, and awful management. It is not "peculiar" that the excuses corporations will use to keep raising prices are endless.

[@LuciusKyrus]

Government is not the solution to our problems. Government is the problem.

[@MAG320]

If anyone sees this comment, its not about active income anymore. Its about passive income & a massive amount of equity. The more equity you have the more passive income you can get your hands on. Also investments.

[@ashleyrobert4302]

No adult who is above 30 wants to work fast food!

[@GrandHuevotes]

Let’s go Biden!!

[@razablanco3766]

The root of the problem is literally you not Putin

[@DJ-vj4vi]

There are no available jobs anymore stop blaming us

[@b_to_the_b]

I don’t care 🤷

[@redvine4857]

Not sure if these job data are real, and the type of added jobs? People become homeless when they can't find sustainable work to provide for immediate needs. Homeless is increasing, so job data is questionable.

[@FaTCaKeSs1995]

Fast restaurant your crazy

[@fmj-j2327]

⛽ gas prices all time high unemployment at all time high Food prices at all time high Lines at food banks 👎👎

[@timothykozlowski2945]

Jobs are always a lagging indicator before a recession hits.

[@davidgibbs9151]

But according to your president, this is greatest economic recovery in history! And it's a good thing that we are not back to pre pandemic levels! 🤦‍♂️

[@jcoop3660]

Unslave!

[@BobSmith-ce2zp]

Wake up Sleepy Joe, your problem.

[@pvttj8572]

V. O. T. E. B. L. U. E.

[@mrjackson2067]

Blue can’t even get out of the way and just allow the market to rebound.

[@Polyluv626]

This Biden administration sucks