signs of slowing in the latest jobs report. i know people were looking, and i was hoping for a higher number. reporter: the u.s. adding 235,000 jobs in august, a major drop-off from the more than 1 million in july, driven in large part by hospitality, services and retail industries sharply affected by the pandemic. there s no question the delta variant is why today s job report isn t stronger. reporter: all as millions face the loss of pandemic emergency unemployment benefits. we have more unfilled jobs in this country than at any time on the record of measuring unfilled jobs. so we think the jobs are there, and we think the states have the resources they need to move people from unemployment to employment. reporter: as president biden ramps up his aggressive approach on the pandemic, expect a parallel effort, white house officials say, in ramping up their pressure to get the president s domestic agenda passed through congress. over the course of the last several weeks, whi
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only 235,000 jobs added back in august. at that pace, it would take almost two years from here to fully recover. meantime there are 10 million job openings and about the same number of people who lost their emergency jobless benefits. this fall will be critical to see if the unemployed can move into all those open jobs and whether the loss of that spending power from the jobless checks holds back consumer spending. meantime hopes are fading for a fall of business travel and return to work. companies have been cancelling in-person meetings and conferences. airlines report growth in bookings has stalled. more companies are pushing return to the office until sometime next year. another big question for consumers and policy makers, the big i word, inflation. is it transitory as the fed has suggested, or is it something more dangerous? now, the up upside for social security recipients, they could see the biggest cost of living adjustment in years.
number. reporter: the u.s. adding 235,000 jobs in august, a major drop-off from the more than 1 million in july, driven in large part by hospitality, services and retail industries sharply affected by the pandemic. there s no question the delta variant is why today s job report isn t stronger. reporter: all as millions face the loss of pandemic emergency unemployment benefits. we have more unfilled jobs in this country than at any time on the record of measuring unfilled jobs. so we think the jobs are there, and we think the states have the resources they need to move people from unemployment to employment. reporter: and, jim, along with the public ramp-up on the coronavirus, expect the white house to focus intently on their legislative agenda behind the scenes over the course of the last several weeks even as the chaos in afghanistan played out, the white house and democrats on capitol hill have been working feverishly to craft the details of the president s $3.5 trillion ex
amid health and safety concern, child care issues, and we ve seen low wage workers use the time and cushion to retrain for hire paying jobs. workers here still have the upper hand and companies are raising wages to attraction them. you saw walmart giving workers a raise, starting pay there above $16 an hour. and the jobs report friday showed wages grew a strong 4.3% in august but only 235,000 jobs were added back last month after a really strong june and july. you can see that the delta variant at work in these numbers. hiring in leisure and hospitality stalled. that is the sector that drove so much of the job gains there, unemployment there about 10%. and there were also job losses in retail, stores, bars. that is the delta variant. even though there are not lockdowns, people intuitively know that the darpt is dangerous and they are starting to protect themselves by not going out as