Employers unexpectedly cut 23,000 jobs in a sign of a wilting labor market
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U.S. employers cut twenty-three thousand jobs in July, NPR News reports, and prior months' job gains came in lower than initially reported. The downward adjustments point to a labor market weakening more significantly than first appeared.
Source: https://www.npr.org/2026/08/07/nx-s1-5924786/employers-ec...
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