06/01/2022 10:00 AM EDT
With help from Shayna Greene
— JOLTS data comes out this morning, with May unemployment figures on their way Friday.
— Sen. Richard Burr is pressing DOL, DHHS and DOE about the administration’s telework policies for agency staff.
— A bunch of unions are leaning on Biden to make a move on student debt.
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JOLTS STRIKE: The Bureau of Labor Statistics is set to release the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey for April at 10 a.m. today. The March data released in early May showed a record high 11.5 million job openings, on a seasonal adjusted basis.
Economists are closely watching to see if there will be any change in that figure as the country heads into the summer, or any shifts in other indicators like the number of workers voluntarily quitting their jobs — which also hit a record in March at 4.5 million.
The report comes as the...
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