Friday, September 1, 2017

US gains 156,000 jobs, unemployment rate up to 4.4 pct.

September 01, 2017 at 07:30AM

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. job growth slowed in August as employers added 156,000 jobs, but even that decreased pace suggests that businesses remain confident in an economy now in its ninth year of recovery from the Great Recession.

The Labor Department says the unemployment rate ticked up to 4.4 percent.

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