The last time America’s  job numbers  were this bad—besides the pandemic—was during the Great Recession. Revisions to the last three months of job reports have moved the three-month growth average to 35,000, a lag that hasn’t emerged since 2010 , and which some economists have said could indicate a recession is on the horizon. “The labor market is much weaker than originally reported the last two months. While payrolls grew 73k in July, May and June data were revised down a total of 258k to 19k