The Labor Department reported Friday that American nonfarm employers cut 23,000 jobs in July, a drop some attribute to employers’ wariness to hire amidst tariffs and the costs of the war in Iran. He cited a burst in construction as a driver of American jobs. But experts have pointed to the boom in data centers as the primary driver of nonresidential construction growth this year—and the vast majority of those jobs are temporary. He talked about construction, but did not bring up the healthcare sector, which has been the largest driver of job growth in the country for the past several years. “Job creation has effectively ground to a halt, and businesses simply are not hiring at the pace a healthy economy demands.”