US Job Growth Stalling, New Report Finds
The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown
CNN
3.2 • 865 Ratings
🗓️ 5 September 2025
⏱️ 75 minutes
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| 0:27.6 | Welcome to our viewers in the United States and around the world. |
| 0:30.6 | I'm Pamela Brown. |
| 0:31.6 | We'll blitzer is off today and you're in the situation room. This is CNN breaking news. |
| 0:44.8 | And we began with breaking news on the U.S. economy. |
| 0:47.0 | A disappointing jobs report just released this morning shows employers added just 22,000 |
| 0:52.6 | jobs last month, raising fears that U.S. job growth is stalling out. |
| 0:57.3 | This report also reveals a rising unemployment rate taking up to 4.3 percent, the highest in nearly four years. |
| 1:05.1 | CNN's Vanessa Urquivage is in New York and CNN's Elena Treene is at the White House. |
| 1:09.0 | So Vanessa, put this in perspective |
| 1:10.8 | for us, these numbers that were lower than what economists had expected. Help us understand. |
| 1:16.4 | Yeah, this is just a sign that the jobs market is slowing and starting to stall. The estimate |
| 1:22.3 | from economists was that we were going to be seeing an ad of 77,000 jobs in the month of August. You can see there |
| 1:29.0 | on your screen, just 22,000 jobs added. And the unemployment rate ticking up to 4.3%. That was |
| 1:36.1 | expected. But as you note, that is the highest employment rate we've seen since October of 2021. |
| 1:43.4 | Also worth noting that there were revisions in this report. |
| 1:47.1 | Revisions are normal, but there was much to do about this in the last jobs report looking |
| 1:52.0 | at significant revisions, smaller revisions in this report. July revised up by about 6,000 |
| 1:58.4 | jobs, but look at that on your screen. If you look at the lower left hand, right hand corner there, you can see that the month of June |
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