The U.S. jobs engine is sputtering and looks to be in danger of stalling out.

U.S. employers added just 22,000 jobs in August, according to a report Friday from the Labor Department. The unemployment rate inched up 4.3%. Revised figures also show there was also a net loss of jobs in June for the first time since 2020, in the midst of the pandemic.

The U.S. has now had four months in a row of pretty anemic job growth. Average job growth between May and August was down 75% from the same period a year ago.

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The weakness was visible all across the economy.

"There are not a lot of silver linings in the report," she economist Julia Coronado of Macropolicy Perspectives. "We are losing engines of job growth."

There was a net loss of jobs last month in manufacturing, construction,

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