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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Business
Lauren Aratani in New York

US economy adds 206,000 June jobs as labor market cools slightly

People in field bend to pick bell peppers
Farm workers in Camarillo, southern California, this week. Photograph: Étienne Laurent/AFP/Getty Images

The labor market started to ease in June, with 206,000 jobs added to the US economy last month, according to new labor data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).

The number of new jobs is close to what economists had expected for the month. The figures represent a slight cooling compared to May, when the economy added a revised 218,000 jobs.

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