First US jobs data since Trump fired statistics chief to be released

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Revisions show the US lost jobs in Junepublished at 13:38 British Summer Time

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Natalie Sherman
New York business reporter

We’re also looking at the updates to estimates for job creation in the previous months.

That’s a mixed bag. We already knew that job creation had slowed to a crawl in May and June. But the Bureau of Labor Statistics now says the number of jobs outright contracted in June, by 13,000 positions.

However, the agency revised up its estimate for July job creation slightly, saying the most recent data showed employers added 79,000 jobs that month, compared to the previously estimated 73,000.