June NFP +223K

Last month, the U.S. economy created 223,000 net new jobs. The unemployment rate dropped to 5.3%. That’s the lowest since April 2008.

The reports for April and May were revised lower by 60,000.

The labor force participation rate fell to 62.6%. That’s the lowest in nearly 40 years.

Posted by on July 2nd, 2015 at 9:00 am


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