Another month brought more disappointing news on the pace of hiring. Businesses added fewer jobs than expected in July, and previous estimates of private-sector hiring were revised downward, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today.

You can feel it can’t you? I’m talking about the palpable sense of unease many business owners and consumers have about the economy and their own financial condition.

For the second month in a row, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) issued sobering news on the jobs front with its June employment report.

For the second time in a month, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) today issued more sobering news on the jobs front.

The BLS reported that the national unemployment rate fell to 9.5 percent in June, from 9.7 percent in May. Good news, right? Normally, that would be considered improvement. The problem is the size of the national labor force plunged by 652,000 people last month, according to the BLS survey.

To say the national jobs report issued June 4 by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) was a disappointment is a vast understatement. If you take out the hiring of temporary government workers for the 2010 Census, the U.S. economy produced virtually no net job growth in May.