A worker climbs at the construction site of the new legislative building for the Georgia General Assembly in Atlanta, on June 4, 2025. Erik S Lesser/EPA via Shutterstock

A jobs report to be released on Friday will show whether the resilient labor market continued to defy business uncertainty and recession concerns stoked by President Donald Trump's tariffs.

The fresh data, which details hiring in May, is set to reveal the performance of a key measure of economic health as Trump rolled back some of the " Liberation Day " tariffs imposed a month earlier.

Economists expect the U.S. to have added 125,000 jobs in May, which would amount to solid job growth, albeit a marked slowdown from 177,000 jobs added a month prior.

The expected job growth in May would come in below the aver

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