Bad timing for your doom and gloom propaganda... https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2022/08/05/july-jobs-report-unemployment-rate-3-5-528-000-jobs-added/10243309002/ Economy adds 528,000 jobs in July as hiring surges despite high inflation. US recovers all jobs lost in COVID. U.S. employers added a booming 528,000 jobs in July as the labor market now has recovered all 22 million jobs lost in the pandemic and continued to defy soaring inflation, rising interest rates and a slowing economy. The unemployment rate fell from 3.6% to 3.5%, matching a 50-year low, the Labor Department said Friday.