>>rown: all right, mario vargas llosa, nice to talk to you. thank you. >> thank you very much. >> woodruff: again, the major developments of the day: may was the worst single month for job growth in a year with only 69,000 new jobs. and it pushed the national unemployment rate up to 8.2%. the grim numbers sparked a sell- off on wall street. the dow industrials lost nearly 275 points. and the u.n. human rights council condemned syria for the massacre of 108 people in houla. and to kwame holman for what's on the newshour online. kwame. >> holman: we have more on today's jobs numbers with paul solman's own measure of unemployment. that's on his "making sense" page. plus, tonight's "need to know" features a comprehensive look at massachusetts' health care reform, pushed by then-governor mitt romney, and how it's working now. find a link on our homepage. all that and more is on our web site, newshour.pbs.org. margaret. >> warner: and that's the newshour for tonight. on monday, we'll look at the fierce national debate on government's role playing ou

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