FinancialUS Loses 23,000 Jobs in July, Unemployment Rate FallsWritten by BloombergPublished Aug 7, 2026, 1:22 PMWatch on Grafa TVShareUS employers unexpectedly cut jobs in July and hiring over the previous two months was revised lower. 23,000 jobs were lost, the estimate was for a gain of 80,000 jobs. The unemployment rate fell to 4.1% from 4.2%. Bloomberg's Michael McKee reports.