Sophia Lewis, left, with PSEG Long Island, speaks to an attendee at a Citi Field job fair in New York on June 30. Sophia Lewis, left, with PSEG Long Island, speaks to an attendee at a Citi Field job fair in New York on June 30. U.S. employers added a solid 223,000 jobs in June, and the unemployment rate fell to 5.3 percent, a seven-year low. The numbers reflect a job market moving close to full health and raise expectations that the Federal Reserve will start raising interest rates as early as September.