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June jobs report: Hiring Slows, Unemployment Rises

By Annalyn Censky @CNNMoney July 8, 2011: 12:16 PM ET

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- The job market hit a major roadblock last month, as hiring slowed to a crawl and the unemployment rate unexpectedly rose.

The economy gained just 18,000 jobs in June, the government reported Friday, sharply missing most expectations and coming in even weaker than the paltry 25,000 jobs added in May.

It marked the weakest month since September, when the economy was still losing jobs. Immediately after the release, stock futures plummeted and bond prices rose.

"At first, when I heard it, I thought maybe they had announced the wrong numbers, they were so bad," said Robert Brusca of Fact and Opinion Economics.

Economists were expecting government job losses, but few had predicted that private businesses would pull the reins back so tightly.

Private businesses added only 57,000 jobs in June - the weakest growth since May 2010. Earlier this year, businesses had been adding more than 200,000 jobs each month.

"You look at the charts for private sector growth and you could see, we were building a nice, steady crescendo," Brusca said. "All of a sudden the bottom fell out!"

The main culprit economists are point to: uncertainty.

Businesses are hesitant to hire given uncertainty surrounding federal spending cuts and tax policy, as Congress still has yet to reach an agreement on the debt ceiling and long-term measures for trimming the nation's deficit.

"I think a lot of this is the backlash to the impasse in Washington," Brusca said. "If you're a small business man, you sit back and say I'm not doing anything, I'm not hiring -- until I see what happens in Washington."

But a variety of other factors also could have contributed to the recent weakness.

"There isn't a single silver bullet -- there are a number of factors coming together," said John Silvia, chief economist for Wells Fargo. "The tsunami, floods, higher gas prices, and the stalemate in Washington all create a lot of uncertainty."

0:00 / 2:28 Government bleeding jobs, no end in sight More bad news: June's jobs report follows an already dismal report from May. Economists, for the most part, were hopeful that June would be better, predicting about 125,000 jobs added during the month, according to a CNNMoney survey.

But instead, the June jobs report brought bad news on nearly every front.  The government revised the jobs numbers for April and May both downward, average weekly hours and wages fell, and the unemployment rate rose to 9.2% from 9.1% in May.

Meanwhile, the total number of unemployed people rose to 14.1 million.  A whopping 44% of those folks, or 6.3 million people, have been unemployed for 6 months or more. The average length of unemployment is 39.9 weeks -- an all-time high.

The underemployment rate, which includes people who want to work full-time but are forced to work part-time, rose to 16.2%, its highest rate since December.

Overall, the job market is still far from a full recovery. The economy needs to add about 150,000 jobs a month just to keep pace with population growth.

So far, the nation has only gained back about a fifth of the 8.8 million jobs lost since the recession began.

Read the full story at: http://money.cnn.com/2011/07/08/news/economy/june_jobs_report_unemployment/index.htm

0:00 / 0:51 Forecast grim for job companies

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The Latest Jobs Report

JUNE 2011
U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor & Statistics

Nonfarm payroll employment was essentially unchanged in June (+18,000), and the unemployment rate was little changed at 9.2 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Employment in most major private-sector industries changed little over the month. Government employment continued to trend down.

Household Survey Data

The number of unemployed persons (14.1 million) and the unemployment rate (9.2 percent) were essentially unchanged over the month. Since March, the number of unemployed persons has increased by 545,000, and the unemployment rate has risen by 0.4 percentage point. The labor force, at 153.4 million, changed little over the month. (See table A-1.)

Among the major worker groups, the unemployment rates for adult men (9.1 percent),  adult women (8.0 percent), teenagers (24.5 percent), whites (8.1 percent), blacks (16.2 percent), and Hispanics (11.6 percent) showed little or no change in June.  The jobless rate for Asians was 6.8 percent, not seasonally adjusted. (See tables A-1, A-2, and A-3.)

The number of persons unemployed for less than  weeks increased by 412,000 in June. The number of long-term unemployed (those jobless for 27 weeks and over) was essentially unchanged over the month, at 6.3 million, and accounted for 44.4 percent of the unemployed. (See table A-12.)

The civilian labor force participation rate was little changed in June at 64.1 percent. The employment-population ratio decreased by 0.2 percentage point to 58.2 percent. (See table A-1.)

The number of persons employed part time for economic reasons (sometimes referred to as involuntary part-time workers) was essentially unchanged in June at 8.6 million. These individuals were working part time because their hours had been cut back or because they were unable to find a full-time job. (See table A-8.)

In June, 2.7 million persons were marginally attached to the labor force, about the same as a year earlier. (These data are not seasonally adjusted.) These individuals were not in the labor force, wanted and were available for work, and had looked for a job sometime in the prior 12 months. They were not counted as unemployed because they had not searched for work in the 4 weeks preceding the survey. (See table A-16.)

Among the marginally attached, there were 982,000 discouraged workers in June, down by 225,000 from a year earlier. (These data are not seasonally adjusted.) Discouraged workers are persons not currently looking for work because they believe no jobs are available for them. The remaining 1.7 million persons marginally attached to the labor force in June had not searched for work in the 4 weeks preceding the survey for reasons such as school attendance or family responsibilities. (See table A-16.)

See the complete report at: http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm