Job Picture Brightens with August Hiring
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The U.S. job market brightened modestly in August as employers added 144,000 workers to payrolls and weak hiring tallies for the two prior months were revised up, the Labor Department said on Friday.
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Japan's unemployment rate improved in August while a key economic survey released Friday showed growing corporate optimism in the latest signs of a gradual rebound in the world's second largest economy.
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The pace of hiring for US companies in the fourth quarter is expected to be consistent with the solid employment activity of the past six months, and much improved from a year ago, according to Manpower Inc.
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The first employment survey released after the election said U.S. businesses added 337,000 jobs -- almost twice as many as expected -- last month.
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The pace of job creation picked up modestly in August and the unemployment rate edged down, the Labor Department said on Friday in a report that offered some political
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The US economy generated 144,000 jobs in August, the Labour Department said, in a sign that the labour market was improving slightly after two sluggish months.
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THE NUMBERS: Employers went on a hiring spree in October, adding 337,000 new jobs, the Labor Department said Friday. The surge was the largest in seven months.
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Employers added 132,000 jobs last month, a moderate pace slightly above what forecasters were expecting.
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WASHINGTON -- Hiring perked up in August as employers added 128,000 jobs, pulling down the unemployment rate to 4.7 percent, sending a Labor Day message that the economic expansion still has staying power.
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WASHINGTON: The US job market brightened modestly in August as employers added 144,000 workers to payrolls and weak job tallies for the two prior months were revised up, the Labour Department said yesterday.
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The job market looked much like the economy as a whole last month: subdued but strong enough.
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Position created more than a year ago finally gets filled.
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U.S. employers probably increased their hiring slightly in September, economists said in advance of jobs figures being released this morning.
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Employers added a solid 132,000 new jobs in June and boosted payrolls more strongly than previously thought in April and May, according to a Labor Department report that underlined a strengthening job market.
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Bee Washington Bureau. WASHINGTON - The economy added 144,000 jobs in August, the best performance since May, but 6,000 fewer than economists had forecast, the Labor Department reported Friday.
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The Labor Department reports the unemployment numbers for August at 8:30 am EDT Friday. Economists look for a stronger increase in August payrolls than in the prior two months and for the unemployment rate to be unchanged.
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The US economy added a better-than-expected 132,000 jobs last month, official figures show.