Sunday, September 27
U.S. employers added 147,000 jobs in June as the American labor market continues to show surprising resilience despite uncertainty over President Donald Trump's economic policies. The unemployment rate ticked down 4.1% from 4.2% in May, the Labor Department said Thursday. Hiring rose modestly from a revised 144,000 in May and beat economists expectations of fewer than 118,000 new jobs and a rise in the unemployment rate. THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. AP's earlier story follows below. The steady slowdown in U.S. hiring likely continued in June as President Donald Trump's trade wars, federal hiring freeze and immigration crackdown weighed on the American job market. When the Labor Department on Thursday releases job numbers for last month, they're expected to show that businesses, governme
