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U.S. added just 73,000 jobs in July and numbers for prior months were revised much lower
CNBC ^ | August 01, 2025 | Jeff Cox

Posted on 08/01/2025 6:02:05 AM PDT by hcmama

*US JULY NONFARM PAYROLLS RISE 73K M/M; EST. +104K

*US JULY TWO-MONTH PAYROLL NET REVISION SUBTRACTS 258,000

*US JULY UNEMPLOYMENT RATE 4.2%; LAST 4.1%


TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: economy; jobs
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The revisions to the May and June numbers will be the real story here.

On the upside, not even Powell can make the case against a rate cut in September.

1 posted on 08/01/2025 6:02:05 AM PDT by hcmama
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To: hcmama

Which means we no longer need Joe Pedo’s 21 million “hardworking” freeloaders. We’re out of jobs. Send them home. We need these few jobs for starving and thirsty Americans graduating from college.


2 posted on 08/01/2025 6:04:27 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer ("Kamala Harris would have been the next Abraham Lincoln". - Jeff "Dumber" Daniels.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Hiring ALWAYS slows down im the Summer.


3 posted on 08/01/2025 6:06:52 AM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA, AND HE WILL HAVE NO GODS BEFORE HIM!)
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To: hcmama

I watched Fox Business- and they skewered Powell- said he had complete access to all the data, especially the downward revisions, and he still refused to lower rates...

Many of them called for an end to the Fed


4 posted on 08/01/2025 6:08:26 AM PDT by God luvs America
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"The June total came down from the previously stated 147,000, while the May count fell to just 19,000, revised down by 125,000."

These are some serious downward revisions.

5 posted on 08/01/2025 6:10:48 AM PDT by hcmama
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To: God luvs America

We know Powell is NOT working for the best interest of the American people.


6 posted on 08/01/2025 6:11:42 AM PDT by LoveMyFreedom
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To: hcmama

Whoever put together these numbers should lose HIS job.


7 posted on 08/01/2025 6:12:29 AM PDT by Kleon
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To: LoveMyFreedom

he’s a left wing idealouge....


8 posted on 08/01/2025 6:16:50 AM PDT by God luvs America
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To: hcmama

Economic numbers have always been “cooked”.

Harry Truman referred to economists as two-fisted.

When they read the numbers, the weasels wanted it both ways.

Hence Truman called them two-fisted for saying “on the one hand” but then “on the other hand”.

Trump’s economy is on the right track for two main reasons.

Drill baby, drill and cutting every regulation he can get his hands on.


9 posted on 08/01/2025 6:17:04 AM PDT by Biblebelter
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To: hcmama

I think it’s important to look below the surface. Letting people go at NPR, PBS, USAID, while increasing employment at ICE, is good. Increasing state government employment seems wrong.

I would like to see increasing private sector employment. I hope to see it in the energy sector. Cheaper American energy will encourage manufacturing.


10 posted on 08/01/2025 6:17:18 AM PDT by ChessExpert (Infidels of the world unite against the evil that is Islam.)
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To: Kleon

If this were the Biden Administration, we would be saying heads should roll. A 1000+% overestimate is not a rounding error.


11 posted on 08/01/2025 6:19:09 AM PDT by hcmama
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To: ChessExpert

I agree about the public sector, but 26,000 manufacturing jobs were lost in May and June as well


12 posted on 08/01/2025 6:20:06 AM PDT by hcmama
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To: hcmama

Just means more people employed.


13 posted on 08/01/2025 6:20:48 AM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Am Yisrael Chai ~)
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To: LoveMyFreedom
We were told last weekend that this week would bring perhaps the best economic numbers in years.

Instead, we got lousy stock market numbers, the Fed’s decision and now this jobs report.

It almost makes you wonder if there are those working behind the scenes to take the wind out of the sails of the Trump administration, doesn’t it?

14 posted on 08/01/2025 6:21:26 AM PDT by daler
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If this were the Biden Administration, we would be saying heads should roll. A 1000+% overestimate is not a rounding error.

Agreed.

15 posted on 08/01/2025 6:24:01 AM PDT by johniegrad
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To: cowboyusa

Okay, BUT is this a “seasonally adjusted” figure similar to housing starts/permits?


16 posted on 08/01/2025 6:25:18 AM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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BLS stats are seasonally adjusted


17 posted on 08/01/2025 6:29:13 AM PDT by hcmama
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To: daler

No, only 100 K Jobs were expected


18 posted on 08/01/2025 6:33:19 AM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA, AND HE WILL HAVE NO GODS BEFORE HIM!)
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To: God luvs America

Truth


19 posted on 08/01/2025 6:33:42 AM PDT by combat_boots
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To: daler

The Gall will tell the Story. The Tax Cuts would have worked there way in by then


20 posted on 08/01/2025 6:34:09 AM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA, AND HE WILL HAVE NO GODS BEFORE HIM!)
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