Via Jalopnik.

Auto makers both domestic and foreign are hiring in the U.S. as they expand production of small, high-mileage cars.

The Labor Department says the economy barely added any jobs last month, and the unemployment rate edged up a notch to 9.2 percent. But check what's going on in the auto manufacturing: another 900 jobs in June, meaning 72,000 more workers are building cars in the U.S. than two years ago.
Americans are buying more cars, and carmakers are putting more people back on the assembly line, as Marketplace's Jeff Horwich reports.