America's jobs scare recedes

AxiosSeptember 4, 2026en

The labor market looks considerably healthier than it did at the start of the summer. Why it matters: Friday morning's jobs report recast the last two months as a period of modest job growth rather than of outright deterioration, capped by a gain last month that was more than triple what economists expected. The labor market is weathering the Iran conflict and an AI-driven transformation of the economy with surprisingly little damage, at least for now. For the Federal Reserve, the report puts inflation even more squarely in focus — with less evidence that the labor market is too fragile to hold up in the event of higher interest rates. What they're saying: "August turned the heat back up on

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