June's jobs report surpassed the expectations of analysts. The economy added a total of 147,000 jobs last month, ahead of May's upwardly revised 144,000 and consensus forecasts of only 100,000.

Since January 2023, more than 1 in 5 new jobs in the U.S. have been in either state and local government or public education, which is over twice the scale of public sector job growth seen in the ...

State government payrolls grew by 47,000, while local governments added 33,000 jobs. The bulk of those new jobs on both levels were in education, the data shows.