US payrolls add 164,000 new workers in July

U.S. employers hired 164,000 workers in July, bolstering an erratic labor market whose growth remains significantly slower than in 2018.

The data from the Labor Department offers a gauge of the effects of President Trump’s global trade disputes, covering a period after the White House had more than doubled some tariffs on Chinese goods and was holding in reserve the possibility of double-digit duties on all remaining imports from the world’s second-largest economy.