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What the May jobs report means for the economy

According to the Labor Department, the unemployment rate dropped from 4.4 percent to 4.3 percent last month -- the lowest number in 16 years. At the same time, job growth seems to have stalled. Diane Swonk of Diane Swonk Economics joins Judy Woodruff to make some sense of the numbers.