Unemployment: not just a slow summer

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Blame the grads. The unemployment rate typically increases in the early summer months as jobless college graduates flood the labor market, said economist Anirban Basu.

“It is possible to have people graduating in [early] May, joining the labor force and declaring unemployment,” he said.

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