{"id":5090,"date":"2026-08-07T13:37:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T13:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=5090"},"modified":"2026-08-07T13:37:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T13:37:19","slug":"the-economy-has-been-weaker-than-we-thought-as-jobs-report-reveals-23000-deficit-in-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=5090","title":{"rendered":"The economy has been weaker than we thought as jobs report reveals 23,000 deficit in July"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The June jobs numbers from the Labor Department Friday marked a sharp reversal for the American labor market and a political setback for President Donald Trump less than three months before his Republican party seeks to keep full control of Congress in the\u00a0midterm election.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=5087\">Your future workforce already works for you<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Forecasters had expected job creation to approach 100,000 last month.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Local public schools cut 50,000 jobs in July, restaurants and bars 26,000, retailers 19,000.<\/p>\n<p>The 4.1% unemployment rate was the lowest since June 2025 \u2013 but it dropped for the wrong reasons: Fewer people were competing for work as 264,000 dropped out of the labor market. The share of those working or looking for fell to 61.4%, the lowest since February 2021.<\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration, which has imposed massive tariffs in an attempt to create manufacturing jobs, noted that jobs were up 22,000 at construction companies and 5,000 at factories. \u201cThe Trump industrial resurgence is on schedule. Manufacturing and factory construction jobs grew again in July even as government payrolls continued to significantly shrink,\u2019\u2019 said White House spokesman Kush Desai.<\/p>\n<p>Hiring had rebounded this year from a lackluster 2025 in the face of the conflict in the Persian Gulf that has sent energy prices surging and put a strain on family budgets. Job growth had been solid, if unspectacular. Some businesses are having trouble filling vacancies. Others are using technology to do the work humans used to do.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Americans who have jobs are enjoying unusual job security. Layoffs are low by historical standards. Companies, scarred by the surprise labor shortages that followed COVID-19 lockdowns a few years ago, don\u2019t want to risk giving up the staff they have.<\/p>\n<p>One week in July the number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits\u00a0dropped to the lowest level in more than 50 years.\u00a0The jobless rate tumbled to 4.2% in June, the lowest in a year, and is expected to have stayed there last month, according to a survey of forecasters by the data firm FactSet.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>But Americans who have lost their jobs \u2013 or are seeking to bust into the job market for the first time \u2013 are struggling to catch a break.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Economists have used the term \u201cno hire, no fire\u201d to describe the unusual job market conditions.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>So far this year, employers are adding 61,000 jobs a month, up from 9,700 in 2025, the weakest outside a recession since 2002.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=5083\">Current price of Bitcoin for August 7, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tthe United States doesn\u2019t need as many jobs as it used to keep the unemployment rate from rising. Trump\u2019s immigration crackdown and the ongoing retirement of baby boomers mean fewer people are competing for work. So the \u201cbreak-even\u2019\u2019 rate of monthly hiring, 155,000 in 2023-2024, has dropped, perhaps to nearly zero,\u00a0according to a Federal Reserve study.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are just fewer people available to hire,\u2019\u2019 said Sal Guatieri, senior economist at BMO Capital Markets. For some, labor shortages translate into higher wages. The payroll processor ADP reported Wednesday that people who changed jobs last month pocketed a 7% raise, the biggest year-over-year gain in almost a year and a premium over a 4.4% increase for workers who stayed where they were.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, companies have become more productive in recent years, using technology to do the work that humans used to do. \u201cWe are seeing companies produce more with their current staff,\u2019\u2019 Guatieri said. \u201cSo there\u2019s less need to take on new workers.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Shortages of available workers and rising productivity, he said, \u201cwill keep the lid on the rate of hiring and monthly job growth.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, the outlook for hiring is clouded by the ongoing fighting in the Persian Gulf, which has pushed up energy prices and squeezed family budgets, and by the rise of artificial intelligence, which could either make workers more efficient and better-paid \u2014 or take their jobs.<\/p>\n<p>In a report out this week, researchers Ingrid Chen, Marianna Kudlyak and Riva Mikhlin of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco found that\u00a0landing a job has gotten tougher\u00a0in the past couple of years \u2013 surprisingly so.<\/p>\n<p>Normally, this deep into an economic expansion \u2013 it\u2019s been more than six years since the last recession \u2013 employers would need workers so badly that they\u2019d be taking chances on young people and on those with less education. Not this time. \u201cInstead of being pulled in, the pipeline into employment is shrinking such that the recovery is no longer reaching workers at the margins,\u2019\u2019 Chen, Kudlyak and Mikhlin write.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Moreover, the unemployed people who normally get back to work the fastest \u2013 those in their prime working years (25 to 54) and with college educations \u2013 are struggling to find new jobs. The San Francisco Fed researchers aren\u2019t sure what\u2019s making the job search so tough. They suspect it might have to do with the immigration crackdown, hiring slowdowns specifically at tech companies and government contractors, uncertainty over the direction of government policy or \u201cearly signals of broader labor market deterioration.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=5081\">Top CD rates from major banks on August 7, 2026: Chase CDs, Bank of America CDs, Citibank CDs, and more<\/a><\/p>\n<p>____<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>AP Writer Josh Boak contributed to this story.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The June jobs numbers from the Labor Department Friday marked a sharp reversal for the American labor market<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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