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Afford Anything · Saturday, September 5, 2026

Year-Over-Year Job Growth Led by Education and Business Services

Looking at the period from August 2025 to August 2026, private education and health services saw the largest job gains, adding over half a million jobs. Professional and business services followed, with 152,000 jobs added.

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Over the span of the last 12 months, the best performing sectors were private education and health services, which gained a little over half a million jobs, and professional and business services, which gained about 150,000 jobs, 152,000 jobs to be specific.
Paula Pant
Heard on Afford Anything — “First Friday: Hope in Nepal; Trouble in the Bond Market, published Saturday, September 5, 2026. Heardvine summarizes and quotes with attribution and timestamps, and links to the original everywhere.
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