Jobs Report Due Out This Morning 
 
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 Update at 8:35 a.m. ET. The News Is Out: 
 
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 The Bureau of Labor Statistics will release the unemployment report for June at 8:30 a.m. ET Friday. Bloomberg News says economists expect to hear that employers added 165,000 jobs to their payrolls last month. That's about the same number as added in May. 
 
 Some economists say the unemployment rate, which inched up in May to 7.6 percent, stayed at the same level in June. Others think it edged down to 7.5 percent. 
 
 As of June, it has been four years since the U.S. economic recovery officially began. 
 
 NPR's Yuki Noguchi tells Morning Edition host Renee Montagne that the level of job growth has been enough to offset population growth and put some people back to work. 
 
 But there are concerns that times are getting harder for the long-term unemployed. 
 
 "States are pairing back emergency unemployment benefits, in part, because of the sequester," Yuki says. 
 
 Despite the automatic federal spending cuts known as sequestration, hiring has been steady and that pace is expected to continue. Before the July 4 holiday, a couple of economic reports were issued indicating hiring remained solid in June. 
 
 In its survey, payroll provider ADP said businesses added 188,000 jobs in June. And the Employment and Training Administration said weekly unemployment benefits stayed below 350,000 — indicating fewer layoffs. ||||| National Archives 
 
 Yes, it’s that time again, folks. It’s the first Friday of the month, when for one ever-so-brief moment the interests of Wall Street, Washington and Main Street are all aligned on one thing: Jobs. 
 
 After last month, when the hype concluded the June report would be the most important one, like, ever, this month’s affair is demure. It delivered a bit more than expected, however. The economy added 195,000 jobs in June, albeit the unemployment rate was flat at 7.6%. 
 
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– Expectations were slightly upended with today's release of the June jobs report: Most predictions had the unemployment rate ticking down from 7.6% to 7.5%, with somewhere in the neighborhood of 160,000 jobs created. That latter figure turned out to be 195,000 jobs—and yet the jobless rate held steady at 7.6%, reports the Wall Street Journal. Writing for the Journal, Paul Vigna calls out one interesting bit in the report: May's jobs were revised from 175,000 to 195,000. "That's two months in a row of 195,000, which is near enough to 200,000 to constitute an interesting trend." Also writing for the Journal, Michael Derby doesn't see the report as having much of an impact on the Federal Reserve. He writes, "The labor market continues its slow improvement, but we are still some distance from the 7% mark Fed officials say will likely coincide with them ending the bond-buying program."