Why August Payrolls Hid a Quiet Labor Shift

August nonfarm payrolls added 162,000 jobs with unemployment steady at 4.1 percent, but the headline number obscures a deeper structural change. Lucas and Luna unpack how women accounted for almost all job gains last month while men’s hiring stalled, and what that means for real wages and core PCE inflation running above three percent. They examine the gendered labor market shift not as a statistical anomaly but as a durable signal of where consumer demand is actually heading in late 2026.

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