July 30, 2025
"Private employers added more than 100k new jobs in July, but are they good jobs?"
Greg Wright with UC Merced says that although job growth in July was concentrated in lower-wage service industries, the overall picture was mixed.
“That was even actually somewhat offset by losses in education and health services, which tend to be somewhat better types of jobs,” he said.
Education and health lost some 38,000 jobs and it’s unclear whether that’s just a blip.
“There’s been, you know, reductions in government funding at various levels, in health and in education, mostly at the kind of university level,” Wright said.
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