Total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 162,000 in August, and the unemployment rate was unchanged at 4.1 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Employment increased in food services and drinking places and in local government education. The information industry lost jobs.
After steadily declining for years, the number of employed Americans surged by 569K in August, the biggest one month increase since Jan 2025. As a result, the huge gap between the Household and Establishment surveys has closed somewhat https://t.co/hNj1Z3GfVg pic.twitter.com/u1EwFKPTxh
— zerohedge (@zerohedge) September 4, 2026
+1 million private sector jobs
— Will Chamberlain (@willchamberlain) September 4, 2026
-2.9 million foreign born population
Do the math https://t.co/d0X4uhFvhS
