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- The unemployment rate was 4.2 percent in June despite a drop in labor-force participation.
- Labor-force participation fell to its lowest level in five years, according to the June report.
- June saw 1.83 million marginally attached workers, including 499 000 discouraged workers, representing 1.7 percent of the non-labor-force, up from 1.6 percent.
- Economists Heather Long and Jeff Roach said the low unemployment rate may be a statistical quirk that hides weakening labor demand.
