New Jobs Data Expected to Show Gains, but Worries Continue: Live Updates

New Jobs Data Expected to Show Gains, but Worries Continue: Live Updates

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ImageEmpty tables last weekend in Tampa, Fla. The June jobs data was collected before coronaviruses cases began spiking in Florida and other states.Credit...Eve Edelheit for The New York TimesNew jobs data is expected to show gains for June, but continuing worries.

Thursday will bring a double dose of data about the coronavirus pandemic's impact on American jobs. But the numbers are arriving just as new clouds seems to be gathering.

The Labor Department's employment report for June, to be released at 8:30 a.m. Eastern, is expected to show that the economy added three million jobs last month, according to an average of forecasts compiled by the data provider FactSet.

That would be the second straight monthly gain after a catastrophic loss of more than 20 million jobs in April, when the pandemic put much economic activity on ice.

But the survey was compiled in mid-June, before coronavirus cases began to surge in Arizona, Florida and several other states. More timely data that the Labor Department will also release Thursday morning is expected to show that 1.3 million workers filed new claims for state unemployment benefits last week, according to FactSet.

Economists fear that layoffs could accelerate