{"id":33790,"date":"2026-08-09T03:18:02","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T22:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=33790"},"modified":"2026-08-09T03:18:02","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T22:18:02","slug":"us-loses-23000-jobs-in-july-unemployment-dips-slightly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=33790","title":{"rendered":"US loses 23,000 jobs in July, unemployment dips slightly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/08\/Jobs_Under_Trump_Graphic.png?w=900\" \/><br \/>The U.S.&#160;economy&#160;lost 23,000 jobs in&#160;July,&#160;and the unemployment rate dipped slightly to 4.1 percent,&#160;according to new data released Friday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.&#160; Economists&#160;had&#160;expected&#160;American employers to add&#160;83,000 jobs&#160;and&#160;the jobless rate to hold steady at 4.2 percent last month, according to&#160;consensus estimates.&#160; This&#160;comes on the heels of&#160;relatively weak&#160;jobs&#160;numbers&#160;in June,&#160;in which&#160;the U.S. workforce initially saw just&#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/><script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl30214220.effectivecpmnetwork.com\/9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\"><\/div>\r\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S.&#160;economy&#160;lost 23,000 jobs in&#160;July,&#160;and the unemployment rate dipped slightly to 4.1 percent,&#160;according to new data released Friday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.&#160; Economists&#160;had&#160;expected&#160;American employers to add&#160;83,000 jobs&#160;and&#160;the jobless rate to hold steady at 4.2 percent last month, according to&#160;consensus estimates.&#160; This&#160;comes on the heels of&#160;relatively weak&#160;jobs&#160;numbers&#160;in June,&#160;in which&#160;the U.S. workforce initially saw just&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33791,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/08\/Jobs_Under_Trump_Graphic.png?w=900","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-political-news"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}