June Employment Situation Report

U.S. employers added only 80,000 jobs in June, a third straight month of weak hiring that shows the economy is struggling three years after the recession ended.

The Labor Department said Friday that the unemployment rate was unchanged at 8.2 percent.

The economy has added just 75,000 jobs a month in the April-June quarter. That's one-third of 226,000 a month created in the first quarter. Job creation is also trailing last year's pace through the first six months of 2012.

THE EMPLOYMENT SITUATION -- JUNE 2012 - U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

Nonfarm payroll employment continued to edge up in June (+80,000), and the

unemployment rate was unchanged at 8.2 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor

Statistics reported today. Professional and business services added jobs,

and employment in other major industries changed little over the month.

Breaking News: February Jobs Report - 227,000 jobs created

Ken O'Brien

The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that in February the U.S Economy created 227,000 new private sector jobs.

The only sectors of the economy that lost jobs were construction and retail.

The January jobs number was revised upward by 50,000 additional private sector jobs created.

The unemployment rate remained at 8.3%.