The bottom line

■ More workers now hold two full-time jobs, defined as more than 35 hours a week per job, than at any time since the U.S. began collecting this data in 1994: 426,000 Americans held two full-time jobs in June compared with 308,000 in February 2020. The Washington Post

■ The current federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour is worth less today than at any point since February 1956. Then, the minimum stood at 75 cents per hour, or $7.19 in today’s dollars. Fortune

■ The pace of California home sales plunged 21 percent in June from a year earlier. Excluding the spring 2020 lockdown, the state’s home sales were at the lowest level since April 2008. Median sales prices fell 4 percent from the all-time high of $900,170 reached in May. Bloomberg

■ Delta Air Lines agreed to purchase 100 Boeing 737 Max jets, its first major order from the U.S. manufacturer in more than a decade. The deal, which carries a list price of $13.5 billion, could come with discounts. CNBC.com

■ Private-sector payrolls have replaced all 21 million jobs that were lost in the spring of 2020, but not all jobs that came back were the same. Warehouse employment was up by roughly 38 percent in June 2022, compared with February 2020. Leisure and hospitality jobs remain down by nearly 8 percent.

The Wall Street Journal

■ From 2006 to 2020, NASA paid Russia an average of $56 million a seat to take 71 astronauts to the International Space Station. The arrangement with Russia ended last year, with the launch of the SpaceX Crew Dragon craft in 2020.

The New York Times