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U.S. added just 73,000 jobs in July and numbers for prior months were revised much lower

Job growth totaled 73,000 for the month, above the June total of 14,000 but below even the meager Dow Jones estimate for a ...

No Evidence for Trump’s Claims of ‘Rigged’ or ‘Phony’ Job Numbers

Hours after the Bureau of Labor Statistics released employment data showing slow job growth for July and prior months, ...

Employers added 73,000 jobs in July, falling short of forecasts

Employers across the U.S. added 73,000 jobs in July, a slowdown from previous months and a sign the labor market is ...

In rejecting the jobs report, Trump follows his own playbook of discrediting unfavorable data

Trump has a go-to playbook if the numbers reveal uncomfortable realities, and that’s to discredit or conceal the figures and ...

US job growth stalls: Just 73,000 jobs added in July, with ‘stunning’ downward revisions to recent months

The US job market slowed substantially in July and was much weaker than first estimated for prior months, suggesting ...

Steve Moore warns job creation numbers are ‘increasingly unreliable’ amid weak July report

Former Trump economic advisor Steve Moore discusses the July jobs report and President Donald Trump’s efforts to make a new ...

Trump doubles down on claim that jobs numbers are rigged

President Donald Trump continued his diatribe against the July jobs numbers on Monday in a social media post, repeating his ...

Contentious July jobs report confirms the U.S. economy is slowing sharply. Here’s why

The weakness in job growth points to an economy that may be slowing even more than some of the traditional metrics are showing.