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6. +73k jobs in July. was the highlight of the last 3 months. May: + 19k, June: +14k. See also black UR
Sun Aug 3, 2025, 12:12 AM
Aug 3

From the OP excerpt:

with employers adding just 73,000 jobs in July, according to data released Friday.

and just 19k in May, and 14k in June, but that's ancient history I guess.

The headline payroll job numbers (+73,000 in July) come from the Establishment Survey
https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CES0000000001
Monthly changes (in thousands): https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CES0000000001?output_view=net_1mth
YEAR: JAN FEB MAR etc.
2022: 225 869 471 305 241 461 696 237 227 400 297 126
2023: 444 306 85 216 227 257 148 157 158 186 141 269
2024: 119 222 246 118 193 87 88 71 240 44 261 323
2025: 111 102 120 158 19 14 73

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The separate Household Survey's Employed numbers were even worse in the last 3 months, in thousands:
(696) 93 (260)
()'s denote negative numbers
http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS12000000?output_view=net_1mth

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The black unemployment rate (7.2%) is the worst since the pandemic-era October 2021
It was 6.2% in January.   Latest (July) : 7.2%. That's quite a climb in just 6 months.
https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS14000006
Didn't Trump ask Black people, during his campaign, "What have you got to lose"?

Many more links: https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143505265#post17

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