The White House cheered Friday’s job report in which the nation gained 255,000 jobs in July, noting that the numbers had beaten analysts’ expectations, but conceding that “more work needs to be done.”

“U.S. businesses have now added 15 million jobs since private-sector job growth turned positive in early 2010, and the longest streak of total job growth on record continued in July,” said Jason Furman, chairman of the White House’s Council of Economic Advisors.

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