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Jamie Dupree @jamiedupree
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July jobs report - 157,000 jobs created as unemployment rate drops to 3.9 percent
May jobs numbers revised up from 244k to 268k; June also revised up from 213k to 248k
The U6 rate - the broadest measure of unemployment - dropped to 7.5%. U6 hasn't been there since May 2001
The Labor Force Participation Rate stayed the same in July at 62.9%
The size of the labor force increased only slightly in July as it went up 105,000 people
Comparing 2018 to 2017 for the first 7 months of the year, the jobs market is up 30k a month
The 157k jobs created in July was the second slowest month of job growth this year, ahead of only the 155k in March
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