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By PAUL WISEMAN, AP Economics Writer<\/strong><\/p>\n

WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 U.S. employers added a surprising 172,000 jobs in May as the labor market continued to show resilience in the face of rising costs from the Iran war.<\/p>\n

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The Labor Department reported Friday that job growth was down slightly last month from a revised 179,000 in April. The unemployment rate stayed at a low 4.3%.<\/p>\n

The job market has been recovering this year from a miserable 2025, so far shrugging off higher energy prices and increased economic uncertainty since the United States and Israel attacked Iran in late February.<\/p>\n

THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. AP\u2019s earlier story follows below.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 The American job market has climbed out of a rut. But it\u2019s still trudging along tepidly, frustrating young people and others out of work.<\/p>\n

The Labor Department is expected to report Friday that companies, non-profits and government agencies added 105,000 jobs last month, according to a survey of forecasters by the data firm FactSet. That would be solid by the labor market\u2019s recent, diminished standards \u2014 but down from 115,000 in April.<\/p>\n

Hiring has bounced back this year from a miserable 2025, showing unexpected resilience in the face of economic uncertainty and painfully high energy prices caused by the Iran war.<\/p>\n

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Unemployment is expected to have remained at a low 4.3% in May, FactSet says. But despite the improvement from last year, job creation is way down from the boom that followed pandemic lockdowns.<\/p>\n

Workers, jobseekers and employers are stuck in an awkward \u201cno-hire, no-fire\u2019\u2019 labor market. \u201cThose who have jobs are clinging to them, while those without are left wanting,\u201d Diane Swonk, chief economist at the tax and consulting firm KPMG, wrote in a commentary ahead of the jobs report. \u201cThe result is a sense of being frozen or left in a sort of labor market purgatory.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

Many young people are finding it tough to break into a stagnant job market. And workers who have been laid off struggle to get back to work. More than a quarter of the unemployed in April had been jobless for more than six months, up from less than 20% two years ago.<\/p>\n

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Seeing their prospects diminished, Americans are reluctant to leave their jobs and seek something better elsewhere. In April, the number of people who quit dropped to the lowest level since the frightening days of August 2020, when the COVID-19 was running rampant.<\/p>\n

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Last year, employers added 9,700 jobs a month, fewest outside a recession since 2002.<\/p>\n

This year, hiring has rebounded, averaging 76,000 new jobs a month from January through April. Big tax refunds \u2014 the product of President Donald Trump\u2019s 2025 tax cuts \u2014 have given the economy a lift, offsetting the impact of higher energy prices since the United States and Israel attacked Iran in late February. But the refunds have mostly been pocketed, and gasoline prices remain above $4 per gallon.<\/p>\n

Healthcare companies have been propping up the job market.<\/p>\n

Over the past year, they\u2019ve added more than 456,000 jobs; all other U.S. employers have collectively cut 205,000.<\/p>\n

Martha Gimbel and Ryan Nunn of Yale University\u2019s Budget Lab note that strong healthcare hiring isn\u2019t surprising as Americans age and need more prescriptions and trips to the doctor. In fact, the industry\u2019s job growth is in line with Labor Department predictions from a decade ago. \u201cThe question is not why healthcare has kept hiring\u2014it is why other industries have not,\u201d they wrote in a report published Tuesday, suggesting that one explanation might be an immigration crackdown that has reduced the supply of foreign-born workers.<\/p>\n

At least the United States doesn\u2019t need as many new jobs as it used to. The drop in immigrants and rising Baby Boomer retirements mean that fewer people are competing for work. As a result, the so-called break-even point \u2014 the number of new jobs required to keep the unemployment rate stable \u2014 has likely dropped to near zero, from the 155,000 new jobs per month that was typical two or three years ago, according to a Federal Reserve report.<\/p>\n

Some analysts fear that artificial intelligence will wipe out entry-level jobs. But economists Gregory Daco and Lydia Boussour of the tax and consulting firm EY-Parthenon wrote in a commentary Tuesday that AI \u201cadoption is proving more gradual and costly than many anticipated. Firms are increasingly using AI to enhance productivity and control labor costs.\u201d But AI, they wrote, has reduced hiring rather than \u201ctriggering broad-based layoffs.\u2033<\/p>\n

And a new study by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York identified a different culprit for young people\u2019s struggle to land jobs after college: the rise of remote work. Businesses, it seems, are reluctant to hire new grads for work-at-home jobs because it is harder to train and mentor them when they aren\u2019t coming into the office.<\/p>\n

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