June nonfarm payrolls expanded by 80,000 and the unemployment rate held steady at 8.2%. There are still 12.7 million people classified as unemployed, with 41.9% of them being unemployed 27 weeks or longer. In the first quarter of 2012, the average payroll gain was 226,000 per month. The second quarter averaged a mere 75,000 per month. It seems as though job creation has effectively taken the early summer off.
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New claims for unemployment benefits fell last week by 14,000 to 374,000, the lowest level in six weeks, according to the Labor Department. The four-week moving average of claims edged lower by 1,500 to 385,750. Also, Automatic Data Processing, a firm that processes payrolls for many companies, reported in its monthly announcement that businesses added 176,000 workers to their payrolls in June, a number that exceeded expectations.
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