are invested in the stock market, so stocks are at record highs, investors have been rewarded. companies holding cash have been rewarded, employees haven t. you re finally starting to see employees coming into the mix here. it needs to be broader based, obviously, but these are strong numbers. they show an economy that s healing. just to remind everyone, 288,000 jobs added, 288,000 jobs added in the month of june, 6.1% unemployment, the lowest since 2008. that s your news for right now. thanks, christine. michaela? next up on new day, whitwy bulger speaks out. cut! [bell rings] this.is jane. her long day on set starts with shoulder pain. .and a choice take 6 tylenol in a day which is 2 aleve for. .all day relief. hmm.
we re not going to have a direct impact here. because of the horrible thunderstorms we had yesterday in this region, there s so much water in the streams and rivers, we have flood watches from d.c. all the way to the north. we ll get another round of severe storms that are widespread. 52 million people at risk of severe storms from d.c. to virginia, all the way to northern new england. then we re going to add some of the moisture from this hurricane to that friday, and we re going to get a lot of flooding problems out there, chuck. so again, we re not going to see devastation, but we are going to see a lot of fourth of julys runld, especially in new england from rain. well, and the big concern is you have people who are not used to storms like this, because they re on vacation, they re doing that, and that s the part of this that is of concern. keep them out of the water. exactly. bill karins, thank you very much. now i want to turn to the other breaking news of the morning, wh
288,000 jobs created. a jobless rate down to .02 to 6.1 and positive revisions to the previous two months, all of which combined to create superlatives like this. five straight months of 200,000 or more jobs created for the first time in more than 14 years. so good news, right? well, yes and no. even as president obama pointed out in an interview on wednesday, people don t feel like happy days are here again. that underlying trend for middle class families, that they don t feel like no matter how hard they work they are able to get ahead in the same way that their parents were able to get ahead, that s something that we continue to tackle and drives a lot of my agenda now.
if you take a look at the three states that have driven the largest number of jobs, north dakota, texas and alaska, they re in the energy sector. two different interpretations of the job numbers that came out today. payroll employment increases by 288,000 in the month of june. the unemployment rate declines to 6.1%. the lowest since 2008. but sometimes the devil can be in the details. listen to this full screen quote from today s washington post. the number of people in part-time jobs jumped by more than 1 million in june to 27 million. that has led to worries that the work force may be welcoming p b permanently polarized. what to make of the numbers? let s bring in the panel right now. charles, opinion writer for the washington post. and nina. and sipped syndicated columnist
jen lipman? she s on the look for tim howard. i know tim howard, tell jen. come explain that a little bit. all right. so business before the bell now with cnbc s sara eisen. sara, we got some good news we ve been tweeting about when it comes to the jobs numbers. our economy created 288,000 jobs in the month of may in the month of june, excuse me. that was way better than economists were looking for. they were looking for a number more like 215,000 jobs. 288. also, our nation s unemployment rate drops from 6.3% to 6.1% and that is the lowest unemployment rate we ve seen since september, 2008. that is going to be your headline. it is improvement in the labor market. and another milestone here for you, it marks the fifth month that job creation in this country has been above 200,000. that s the longest streak since back in the 90s tech boom, guys. so, sara, the markets we ve