U.S. Employers Add 215,000 Jobs In July

Published August 7, 2015 at 1:33 PM EDT

Today’s jobs report from the Department of Labor showed the American economy added 215,000 jobs in July. The unemployment rate held steady at 5.3 percent. Here & Now’s Peter O’Dowd looks at the details of the report with Mike Regan of Bloomberg News.

Guest

Mike Regan, editor for Bloomberg News. He tweets @Reganonymous.

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