The August jobs report got here in weaker than anticipated, and employment progress by completely different industries confirmed a combined bag for the U.S. financial system.
The expansion was led by leisure and hospitality and well being care and social help, with every class including greater than 40,000 jobs, in accordance with information from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
If personal training is included with the well being care group, as some economists do, that class would have grown by 47,000 jobs.
Elsewhere within the report, associated classes of jobs noticed conflicting information. Development was a shiny spot, rising by 34,000 jobs, however manufacturing shed 24,000 jobs. Skilled and enterprise companies ticked up by 8,000 jobs, however data misplaced 7,000.
“The job progress is coming actually from solely three locations proper now: leisure and hospitality, well being and training companies, and authorities. … We’re simply not seeing a number of progress in enterprise {and professional} companies, and I feel that’s indicative of an financial system that is slowing down,” former Division of Labor chief economist Betsey Stevenson stated on “Squawk Field.”
Even a number of the stronger classes confirmed a slowdown, at the least quickly. The well being care subsector added 31,000 jobs, or about half its common over the prior 12 months, in accordance with the bureau.
