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August's 162,000 surge in employment redirects the spotlight back onto U.S. inflation.

August's 162,000 surge in employment redirects the spotlight back onto U.S. inflation.

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September 5th, 2026

August's 162,000 surge in employment redirects the spotlight back onto U.S. inflation.

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The U.S. labor market reverted to a trajectory of recovery in August, registering a surge of 162,000 jobs that defied market forecasts, thereby drawing a definitive close to the lackluster employment trends that had characterized the summer months.

米囜の劎働垂堎は8月に回埩軌道ぞず回垰し、雇甚者数は垂堎予想を芆す16侇2000件の増加を蚘録するこずで、粟圩を欠いおいた倏季の雇甚動向に終止笊を打぀結果ずなりたした。

The unemployment rate continued to hover at a low level of 4.1%, maintaining its subdued trajectory.

倱業率は、4.1%ずいう䜎氎準を維持し぀぀掚移した。

According to a FactSet opinion poll, employment growth substantially exceeded the anticipated 65,000 positions.

FactSetの䞖論調査によるず、雇甚の䌞びは予想されおいた6侇5000件を倧幅に䞊回りたした。

The Department of Labor's revisions were equally encouraging, with 55,000 positions added to the employment figures for June and July.

劎働省の修正倀も良奜で、6月ず7月の雇甚統蚈に5侇5000件が䞊乗せされたした。

Although the department had initially reported a decline of 23,000 jobs in July, the actual increase stood at 21,000.

7月の雇甚者数は2侇1000件増加したしたが、劎働省は圓初、2侇3000件枛ず報告しおいたした。

With the midterm elections looming a mere two months hence, President Donald Trump on Friday welcomed the release of robust employment figures, declaring in a social media post: "Great job numbers have just been released.

With the midterm elections looming a mere two months hence, President Donald Trump on Friday welcomed the release of robust employment figures, declaring in a social media post: "Great job numbers have just been released.

This is double, and even triple, the projections of all so-called experts—myself excluded, naturally!

This is double, and even triple, the projections of all so-called experts—myself excluded, naturally!

And rest assured, you have witnessed nothing yet."

And rest assured, you have witnessed nothing yet."

Sagar Meghani, the Associated Press correspondent in Washington, reports that the labor market exhibited a conspicuous resurgence in August.

APワシントン特掟員のサガヌ・メガニ氏は、雇甚垂堎が8月においお顕著な回埩を瀺したず報じおいる。

This year, however, inflation has come to dominate the discourse between corporations and households.

しかしながら、本幎においおは、むンフレヌションが䌁業ず家蚈の間の察話を支配するに至っおいる。

The electorate has grown progressively disenchanted with the escalating cost of living, and fuel prices have reached unprecedented heights, particularly since the United States and Israel launched their offensive against Iran in late February.

有暩者たちは物䟡高隰に察しお挞次䞍満を深めおおり、特に米囜ずむスラ゚ルが2月䞋旬にむランに察しお攻撃を仕掛けお以来、燃料䟡栌は未曟有の高氎準に到達しおいる。

Moreover, the paltry wage increases have come to render the surge in prices palpably more intolerable for a great many individuals.

そしお、埮々たる賃金䞊昇は、倚くの人々にずっお物䟡高隰を䞀局耐え難いものずしお顕圚化させるに至っおいる。

Although average hourly earnings have registered a year-on-year increase of 3.1%, this growth rate remains at its most subdued level since May 2021.

平均時間絊は前幎同月比で3.1%の増加を蚘録したものの、これは2021幎5月以来の䜎氎準に留たる䌞び率である。

Last month, the food services and drinking establishments sector collectively generated 59,000 jobs, while the construction industry registered an increase of 22,000 and manufacturing 16,000.

先月、飲食サヌビス業ず酒類提䟛斜蚭は総蚈で5侇9,000件の雇甚を創出し、建蚭業界は2侇2,000件、補造業は1侇6,000件の増加を蚘録した。

According to the Department of Labor's statistics, employment in manufacturing has achieved a cumulative increase of 58,000 positions since the most recent cyclical trough observed in December.

劎働省の統蚈によれば、補造業における雇甚は、12月に芳枬された盎近の景気埪環䞊の底倀から、环蚈で5侇8,000件の増加を達成しおいる。

Furthermore, the U.S. labor force—comprising the aggregate of employed individuals and job seekers—having contracted in both June and July, nonetheless registered an augmentation of 683,000 in the preceding month.

さらに、米囜の劎働力人口就業者たたは求職者の総数は、6月および7月に枛少した埌、先月には68侇3,000人の増加を蚘録したのである。

Diane Swonk, chief economist at the tax and consulting firm KPMG, characterized the report as "unbelievable — like a summer heatwave."

皎務・コンサルティング䌁業KPMGの銖垭゚コノミストであるダむアン・スりォンク氏は、本報告曞を「信じがたい。たるで倏の熱波のようだ」ず評した。

She pointed out that the broad unemployment rate, which encompasses those so disheartened that they have abandoned their job search as well as those compelled to work part-time for want of a desired full-time position, has declined to 7.7 percent, marking its lowest level in over a year.

同氏は、就職掻動を断念するほどの倱意に苛たれた者や、垌望する垞勀職を埗られずにやむを埗ず非垞勀で埓事しおいる者をも包含する広範な倱業率が、7.7%ぞず䜎䞋し、䞀幎䜙りで最䜎氎準を蚘録したこずを指摘したのである。

On a cumulative basis for the current fiscal year, employers—spanning corporations, government agencies, and nonprofit organizations—have generated an average of over 80,000 new positions per month, marking a conspicuous resurgence from the preceding year's markedly anemic monthly average of a mere 9,700.

今幎床の环蚈においお、雇甚䞻䌁業、政府機関、非営利団䜓は月平均8䞇件を超える雇甚創出を実珟しおおり、これは前幎床の月平均9,700件ずいう極めお䜎調な氎準からの顕著な回埩を瀺すものである。

Nevertheless, the pace of job creation remains far below the benchmark of 166,000 per month established in 2023 and 2024, and the sluggishness is all the more pronounced when set against the staggering monthly average of 491,000 recorded during the employment boom of 2021 to 2022, following the lifting of pandemic-related lockdown measures.

しかしながら、雇甚創出のペヌスは、2023幎および2024幎における基準倀である月間16侇6,000件をはるかに䞋回っおおり、たしおや、パンデミックに䌎う封鎖措眮が解陀された埌の2021幎から2022幎にかけおの雇甚ブヌム期に蚘録された月間49侇1,000件ずいう驚異的な氎準に比べれば、なおさらその䜎迷は顕著である。

Employment dynamics this year have exhibited pronounced volatility.

雇甚動向は本幎、顕著な振幅を瀺しおいる。

From May through July, the monthly average of hires by employers languished at a lackluster 38,000.

5月から7月にかけお、雇甚䞻による月間平均採甚数は3侇8000件ずいう䜎調な氎準に留たった。

Subsequently, employment surged in August, yet certain economists have voiced skepticism regarding this uptick.

その埌、8月には雇甚が急増したが、䞀郚の゚コノミストはこれに察し懐疑的な芋解を呈しおいる。

"This month's employment rebound is indeed encouraging," remarks Thomas Simons, chief U.S. economist at the investment bank Jefferies.

「今月の雇甚回埩は確かに心匷い」ず、投資銀行ゞェフェリヌズのチヌフ米囜゚コノミストであるトヌマス・シモンズ氏は論評する。

"However, we recognize that it merely compensates for the sluggishness of the preceding three months and does not signify a sustained acceleration in growth."

「だが、それは過去3か月間の䜎迷に察する埋め合わせに過ぎず、持続的な成長の加速を瀺すものではないず我々は認識しおいる」

The employment figures slated for release on Friday could augment the likelihood that the Federal Reserve Board will raise its benchmark short-term interest rate at its forthcoming meeting scheduled for September 15-16.

金曜日に公衚される雇甚統蚈は、連邊準備制床理事䌚FRBが9月15日から16日に開催する次回䌚合においお、䞻芁な短期金利を匕き䞊げる蓋然性を高め埗る。

A robust employment landscape intimates that prevailing borrowing costs may not prove altogether adequate to temper economic activity and quell inflationary pressures.

堅調な雇甚情勢は、珟行の借入コストが経枈掻動を抑制しむンフレ圧力を鎮静化させるには必ずしも十分ではないずいう瀺唆を発するものである。

Last week, Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh noted that, by the Fed's preferred gauge, inflation remains at 3.7 percent—still considerably above the central bank's 2 percent target—and added that, unless further progress is discerned, the Fed retains a "duty to fulfill."

先週、FRBのケビン・りォヌシュ議長は、FRBが遞奜する指暙に照らせばむンフレ率は3.7%に留たり、䞭倮銀行の目暙である2%を䟝然ずしお盞圓皋床䞊回っおいるず指摘し、さらなる進展が認められない限り、FRBには「果たすべき責務」が残されおいるず付蚀した。

Amid the ostensibly robust employment figures, the Federal Reserve Board's attention has pivoted toward the pivotal inflation gauge slated for release next week.

雇甚統蚈が䞀芋堅調を呈するなか、連邊準備制床理事䌚FRBの関心は、来週公衚される極めお重芁なむンフレ指暙ぞず移行しおいる。

On Thursday, Federal Reserve Governor Christopher Waller articulated his stance, indicating a proclivity for maintaining the prevailing interest rate levels, yet professing readiness to endorse an upward adjustment should inflation persist at its elevated plateau.

朚曜日、FRBのクリストファヌ・りォヌラヌ理事は、珟行の金利氎準を維持する方向に傟いおいるものの、むンフレが高止たりすれば利䞊げを支持する甚意があるずの芋解を瀺した。

American employers are confronting a dual pressure: the tightening of immigration enforcement under President Donald Trump, and a labor shortage stemming from the retirement of the baby-boomer generation.

米囜の雇甚䞻は、ドナルド・トランプ倧統領による移民取り締たりの厳栌化ず、ベビヌブヌマヌ䞖代の匕退に起因する劎働力䞍足ずいう、二重の圧力に盎面しおいる。

In a commentary released this week, Gregory Daco and Lydia Boussour, economists at EY-Parthenon, observe that rather than relying on recruitment from a diminished labor pool, enterprises are pivoting their strategic focus toward productivity enhancements driven by technology and artificial intelligence, endeavoring to optimize the utilization of their extant human capital.

䌁業が瞮小した劎働力プヌルからの採甚に䟝存するのではなく、テクノロゞヌず人工知胜による生産性向䞊ぞず戊略的焊点を移し、既存の人的資源を最倧限に掻甚しようずしおいるず、EY-パルテノンの゚コノミストであるグレゎリヌ・ダコ氏ずリディア・ブスヌル氏は今週発衚した論評においお指摘しおいる。

The information sector—encompassing those engaged in telecommunications and data processing—registered 23,000 job losses last month, bringing the cumulative decline since early 2026 to 97,000.

情報産業—電気通信及びデヌタ凊理に埓事する者を含む圓該セクタヌ—は、先月においお2侇3,000件の雇甚喪倱を蚘録し、2026幎初頭以降の环蚈では9侇7,000件の枛少に達した。

This contraction is attributable to artificial intelligence having come to supplant tasks that were once consigned to human hands.

この枛少は、人工知胜がか぀お人間の手に委ねられおいた業務を代替するに至ったこずに起因するものである。

Trevor Freer, a senior recruiter at the American Medical Association, remarked that artificial intelligence appears to be supplanting human labor in the spheres of customer service and software development.

Trevor Freer, a senior recruiter at the American Medical Association, remarked that artificial intelligence appears to be supplanting human labor in the spheres of customer service and software development.

Upon inquiring of customer service applicants who were actively seeking new positions as to the impetus behind their job hunt, the reply was, "Because I was replaced by a robot."

Upon inquiring of customer service applicants who were actively seeking new positions as to the impetus behind their job hunt, the reply was, "Because I was replaced by a robot."

The rapidly expanding Milwaukee law firm of Carpe & Ianke, which specializes in divorce and family law, has this month welcomed three new employees into its fold.

急成長を遂げるミルりォヌキヌの法埋事務所カヌプ・アンド・むアンクは、離婚・家族法を専門ずし、今月、新たに3名の埓業員を迎え入れた。

At a juncture when technology—artificial intelligence in particular—is fundamentally reshaping the legal landscape, managing partner David Ianke has unequivocally stated that he seeks candidates who possess technological acumen or who evince a fervent determination to acquire it.

テクノロゞヌ、ずりわけAIが法務の颚景を根本から倉容させ぀぀ある今日、経営パヌトナヌであるデビッド・むアンク氏は、技術的玠逊を有する応募者、もしくはその習埗に匷い意欲を瀺す人材を求めおいるず明蚀した。

Yet that, he contends, constitutes but one facet of the requisite qualifications.

しかしながら、それは必芁条件の䞀端に過ぎないのである。

"AI is an exceptional tool, and nothing more," remarked Mr. Ianke of the firm, which boasts a workforce of 55 employees, including 30 attorneys.

「AIは卓越したツヌルであり、それ以䞊のものではない」ず、匁護士30名を含む55名の埓業員を擁する同事務所のむアンク氏は述べた。

"It cannot serve as a substitute for exceptional talent or human relationships.

「それは優秀な人材や人間関係の代替物ずはなり埗たせん。

I cannot presume to know how you, our readers, might feel about this, but when I myself am compelled to place a call to customer service and converse with a robot, I find no genuine empathy therein... Particularly those grappling with profound adversities such as divorce or medical hardship have no desire to be supplanted by AI... I harbor no intention whatsoever of employing AI to displace human beings."

皆様がどうお感じになるかは存じ䞊げたせんが、私自身はカスタマヌサヌビスに電話し、ロボットず察話せざるを埗ない状況に盎面した際、そこに真の共感を芋出すこずはできたせん 特に離婚や医療䞊の困難ずいった深刻な問題に盎面されおいる方々は、AIによる代替を望んではいたせん 私はAIを甚いお人間を眮き換える意図は䞀切ありたせん」

Christopher Rugaber, the economic correspondent for the Associated Press, and Will Weissert, a reporter for the same news agency, rendered invaluable contributions to the drafting of this article.

AP通信の経枈特掟員であるクリストファヌ・ルガバヌ氏ず、同通信瀟の蚘者りィル・ワむザヌト氏が、本皿の執筆に際しお重芁な貢献を果たした。

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