Yes - payroll numbers suggest we've lost 695,000 since March.

But that figure was 730,000 last month - following some revisions

2/
There's the first sign in monthly data (always can be a blip) of the official unemployment rate rising

Even more so in weekly data (up to almost 5%)

3/
Hours are staging a recovery - still about 10% down on pre-pandemic level, but way above April.

But this is where we see big distributional shifts (here self employment is suffering)

4/
Also hitting the young and part-timers

So - if you've had a stable job and are a millennial, you've been fine, but younger, older, self-employed, or part-time, you've got a lot more to worry about

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