Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Korva Coleman.
Job growth slowed sharply last month.
NPR's Scott Horsley reports U.S.
Employers added just 57,000 jobs in June, less than half as many as the month before.
After several months of relatively strong job growth, the pace of hiring slowed in June.
Health care continued to add workers, but not in great numbers.
And leisure and hospitality saw a net loss of jobs.
Revised figures also show that hiring was weaker than initially reported in April and May,
with a combined downgrade of 74,000 jobs.
The unemployment rate dipped last month to 4.2 percent,
but only because more than 700,000 people dropped out of the workforce.
For people who are working, average wages were up 3.5 percent from a year ago,
but that's likely not enough to keep pace with inflation.
Prices have been climbing at an annual rate of more than 4 percent.
Scott Horsley, NPR News, Washington.
In Venezuela, people are still searching for survivors of last week's back-to-back earthquakes.
The death toll is nearly 2,300 people.
As John Otis reports, much of the search work has fallen to international rescue teams.
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