U.S. Employers Shed Jobs  —  Unemployment Rate Held Steady at 9.5% in July  —  WASHINGTON — The U.S. economy shed more jobs than expected in July while the unemployment rate held steady at 9.5%, a further sign the economic recovery may be losing momentum.

Jobs Report Terrible, Again  —  The economy lost 131,000 jobs in July, all of them in the government.  Private payrolls added north of 70,000 workers—anemic in the face of our current unemployment rate, but hey, at least it's something.  But government jobs fell by 200,000, mostly …

Romer To Leave White House  —  Christina Romer, chairwoman of Pres. Obama's Council of Economic Advisers, has decided to resign, according to a source familiar with her plans.  —  Romer, an economics professor at the University of California (Berkeley) before taking the key admin post, did not respond to repeated calls to her office.

Jobs report: Public sector loses 202,000 jobs; private sector gains 71,000  —  The July jobs report is bad news for jobs, but tepidly good news for recovery.  Another 143,000 census positions expired, contributing to a total public sector job loss of more than 200,000 jobs.