For the third month in a row, the jobs report showed strong payroll gains. WSJ’s Matt Grossman on why the report paints an optimistic picture for the U.S. labor market.

This marks the third straight month of better-than-expected jobs reports. Even with their originally reported totals, March and April’s releases also came in well ahead of analy

The latest jobs report beat expectations for the month of May, but some key points remain unchanged. CBS News' Kelly O'Grady and Aaron Navarro report.

An early Memorial Day had Americans firing up the grill sooner than usual. It might have helped fire up the jobs report, too. Friday’s report showed the economy added a seasonally adjusted 172,000 jobs last month,

US jobs growth was way better than expected last month. The world’s biggest economy added twice as many jobs as economists had forecast: 172,000 versus predictions of around 88,000. Many of the new jobs were in the hospitality sector as pubs,

The labor market delivered another whopping win on Friday: 172,000 jobs in May, when economists had expected 88,000. The even stronger surprise was in the rearview mirror: March was revised up by 29,000 to 214,

CNN News Central’s Kate Bolduan and Senior Reporter Matt Egan dive through the new May jobs report showing a much stronger than expected 172,000 jobs were added last month, indicating resilience despite rising costs from the Iran war.

The May report blew past estimates of around 80,000 job gains, as the economy shows signs of momentum after a patch of job losses in the fall and winter.