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You know, it was fine.

Me, so-so.

I mean, you pick your own word to describe today's jobs report.

From American public media, this is Market Plans.

In Los Angeles, I'm Kyle Rizzdahl.

It is Thursday, today the 2nd of July.

Good as always, Debbie along, everybody.

Here's another one for your consideration.

Today's June jobs report was Fair to Midland.

There was a decidedly underwhelming number of new jobs added to this economy last month, just 57,000, basically half of the best guesses, and April and May were revised down

as well. The unemployment rate, meanwhile, did scoot down to 10th percent, 4.2 percent, the lowest

in a year. Was it all mean? Marketplace is Mitchell Hartman

gets us going. There's a fair amount you can spin as upbeat in the June report, says Sel Guaccheri

at BMO Capital Markets. We're not seeing widespread layoffs. That's a good thing, and the

unemployment rate has ticked down. Though it's mostly for the wrong reason, says Nicole Besho at ZipRecruiter.

Unemployment dropping back to 4.2% can seem good, but it fell because there are fewer people

in the labor market as folks are exiting entirely.

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