extended pandemic unemployment benefits expiring today in the wake of a massively disappointing august jobs report. there s no question the delta variant is why today s job report isn t stronger. i know people were looking, and i was hoping for a higher number. the president blaming the surging delta variant. but amid holiday-weekend travel and packed stadiums and celebrations, america is acting like the threat from covid is over, even though the fact is we re actually much worse off than we were a year ago. the seven-day average of new cases up a stunning 300% from labor day just last year. the first thing we have to do, we can t be having 150,000 new infections per day. that s pandemic numbers. that s the first thing we ve got to crack that one, right away. so, it may be the worst
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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the deadly storm coming on the heels of the end of america s longest war and the chaotic withdrawal from afghanistan. president biden s job approval rating dropping to just 44%. then there is the economy. extended pandemic unemployment benefits expiring today in the wake of a massively disappointing august jobs report. there is no question that the delta variant is why today s job report isn t stronger. i know people were looking and i was hoping for a higher number. the president blaming the surging delta variant but amid holiday weekend travel and past stadiums and celebrations, america is acting like the threat from covid is over even though the fact is we re actually much worse off than we were a year ago. the seven-day average of new cases up a stunning 300% from labor day just last year.
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