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US Payrolls Shrink by 23,000 in July as Unemployment Holds at 4.1%, Prior Months Revised Down
- ▸U.S. nonfarm payrolls fell by 23,000 in July 2026 while the unemployment rate held at 4.1%, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported August 7 — a reading BLS itself describes as having 'changed little' given normal month-to-month variation.
- ▸BLS revised down May payroll gains from +129,000 to +63,000 and June's from +57,000 to +20,000, a combined 103,000-job downgrade to employment levels that had already been published.
- ▸Losses were concentrated in local government education (-50,000) and retail trade (-19,000); health care kept adding jobs (+22,000), and the labor force participation rate slipped to 61.4%, down 0.7 percentage point since January.
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EconoLens Editorial Team. (2026, August 9). US Payrolls Shrink by 23,000 in July as Unemployment Holds at 4.1%, Prior Months Revised Down. EconoLens. https://www.econolens.co.in/news/us-july-2026-jobs-report-payrolls-fall-23000
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