{"id":400247,"date":"2025-09-05T14:58:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T14:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/400247\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T14:58:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T14:58:12","slug":"us-economy-adds-fewer-jobs-than-expected-in-august-confirming-slowdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/400247\/","title":{"rendered":"US economy adds fewer jobs than expected in August, confirming slowdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Labor Secretary says jobs &#8216;still positive&#8217;published at 14:56 British Summer Time<\/p>\n<p>14:56 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-8kvzjk-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/a1462f87-b5c0-43b2-8a08-2f7c7a8f1bff.jpg.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/><strong>Bernd Debusmann Jr<\/strong><br \/>Reporting from the White House<\/p>\n<p>      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Two women speak in front of a camera and microphones outside the White House\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/30bedfce-1e0f-4ab2-be65-b8756e0876a7.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"3220\" height=\"1811\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Bernd Debusmann Jr \/ BBC<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Here at the White House, we&#8217;ve so far seen National Economic Council Director and Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer outside, doing TV hits to discuss the jobs figures. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Chavez-DeRemer rushed inside the West Wing after her TV interviews, and declined to speak to a large group of reporters who were standing nearby. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But moments before, she was on Fox Business, noting that while the jobs &#8220;underperformed, just a bit&#8221;, they are &#8220;still positive&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Almost half a million jobs have been created since the president took office,&#8221; she said, instead laying the blame for the figures on the Fed and Jerome Powell for not lowering interest rates. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s going to take some time, but when everybody is working for the American people and the American worker, and somebody chooses not to, and is instrumental in those decisions that effect the market, that effect the wage growth&#8230;.do your job.&#8221; She said Powell &#8220;should be embarassed&#8221; by the jobs report.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She also denied that tariffs have anything to do with the slowing job market. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Tariffs are working,&#8221; Chavez-DeRemer said. &#8220;Companies are investing in the American workforce. We&#8217;re seeing consumer confidence up, and real wages up, year-over-year.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Labor Secretary says jobs &#8216;still positive&#8217;published at 14:56 British Summer Time 14:56 BST Bernd Debusmann JrReporting from the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":400248,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3090],"tags":[51,1700,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-400247","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115152284468920849","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}