US employers added just 22,000 jobs last month amid uncertainty over President Trump's policies

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(5 Sep 2025) RESTRICTION SUMMARY: ++SHOTS SEPARATED BY WHITE FLASHES++ ++EDIT BEGINS AND ENDS ON SOUNDBITE++ ASSOCIATED PRESS Potomac, Maryland - 5 September 2025 1. SOUNDBITE (English) Mark Hamrick, Senior Economic Analyst, Bankrate: "As we dive into the August employment report, the recent narrative of a no hire, no fire job marker remains very much intact. We had only 22,000 jobs added on the month. That was below what was really kind of a mediocre consensus call of about 80,000 to be added.