{"id":116321,"date":"2025-09-05T12:48:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T12:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/116321\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T12:48:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T12:48:07","slug":"u-s-added-22000-jobs-in-august-in-latest-sign-of-slowing-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/116321\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Added 22,000 Jobs In August In Latest Sign Of Slowing Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe U.S. added 22,000 <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/jobs\/\" id=\"auto-tag_jobs\" data-tag=\"jobs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">jobs<\/a> in August, with <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/unemployment\/\" id=\"auto-tag_unemployment\" data-tag=\"unemployment\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">unemployment<\/a> rising slightly to 4.3%, in the latest sign of a slowing economy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe numbers, from the <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/bureau-of-labor-statistics\/\" id=\"auto-tag_bureau-of-labor-statistics\" data-tag=\"bureau-of-labor-statistics\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bureau of Labor Statistics<\/a>, have taken on new scrutiny after President <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" id=\"auto-tag_donald-trump\" data-tag=\"donald-trump\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump<\/a> fired the head of the agency following July\u2019s lackluster jobs report, even as economists warned that the move was a step toward politicizing the statistics gathering of the federal government.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe latest jobs figures were lower than a number of economists expected. As is typical, the BLS revised its figures for July up slightly, by 6,000, to 79,000 jobs added during the month. But the June figures were revised down, from 14,000 to a loss of 13,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tJobs in movie and music fell by 7,600, to 401,000, while broadcasting jobs dropped by 300, to 333,700, according to the report.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe largest job gains in August were in health care and social assistance, with employment in the federal government continuing to fall. There also were drops in mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction, as well as wholesale trade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The U.S. added 22,000 jobs in August, with unemployment rising slightly to 4.3%, in the latest sign of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":116322,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[4183,84,141,55926,1371,56,1932,54,55],"class_list":["post-116321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jobs","tag-bureau-of-labor-statistics","tag-business","tag-donald-trump","tag-electionline","tag-jobs","tag-uk","tag-unemployment","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}