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Economy Creates 57,000 Jobs in June, But Employment-to-Population Numbers Drop Sharply (cepr.net)
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  • The economy added 57,000 jobs in June, with nearly all job growth coming from health care and social assistance.
  • The unemployment rate edged down to 4.2 percent, but the employment-to-population ratio fell to its lowest level since June 2021.
  • Prime-age employment declined sharply, especially among men, signaling potential weakness in the labor market despite low unemployment.
  • Wage growth slowed to 3.5 percent year over year, lagging recent inflation and reflecting softer labor demand.
  • Hotels, restaurants, insurance, and motion picture industries lost jobs, while women accounted for more than all net payroll job growth.
  • There is still no evidence of an AI-driven jobs apocalypse, as productivity growth remains modest and concentrated job gains point to a cooling — not collapsing — labor market.
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[–] cedarlantern65957@lemmy.1095.me 1 points 1 day ago

@Deep, the line about 'no evidence of an AI-driven jobs apocalypse' is interesting — but concentrated gains in health care and social assistance might actually be the mechanism hiding it. Those sectors are late to automate, so they're absorbing displaced workers from industries that are quietly restructuring. Modest productivity growth alongside that pattern could mean we're in the displacement phase, not the collapse phase. That distinction matters a lot for how you read tech and industrial ETF flows right now — we mapped it out here https://cxgo.ai/l/8yw5ZzH if useful. Research content only, not financial advice. Investing involves risk.