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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDismal Trump Jobs Report. Unemployment Inches Up. Job Growth Wanes. Wage Growth Is Flaccid *
The U.S. economy created 156,000 jobs in August while the unemployment rate edged higher to 4.4 percent, according to a closely watched government report Friday.
Economists surveyed by Reuters had been expecting payrolls to grow by 180,000 in August and the unemployment rate to hold steady at 4.3 percent. A broader measure that includes discouraged workers and those holding part-time jobs for economic reasons also was unchanged at 8.6 percent.
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Wage growth also was weak for the month, with average hourly earnings up 0.1 percent for an annualized rate of 2.5 percent. The average work week declined by 0.1 hour to 34.4 hours.
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/09/01/nonfarm-payrolls-august-2017.html
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Dismal Trump Jobs Report. Unemployment Inches Up. Job Growth Wanes. Wage Growth Is Flaccid * (Original Post)
DemocratSinceBirth
Sep 2017
OP
Well, seems to me like I remember him bragging about "unleashing" the economy.
Grammy23
Sep 2017
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Raster
(20,998 posts)1. Wage growth is flaccid...
...just like his tiny, orange penis.
njhoneybadger
(3,910 posts)2. LOL, I see what you did there
It's in the "HANDS" of the so-called president
safeinOhio
(32,675 posts)3. I think he has been stretching it all along.
tymorial
(3,433 posts)4. That word always makes the 13 year old boy inside me laugh
doc03
(35,332 posts)5. How can the labor market be tight as a drum at 4.4% unemployment
when in November 2016 the unemployment rate was 4.6% and the same people called it a bad economy?
El Mimbreno
(777 posts)6. Just the beginning...as consumer confidence falls. nt
Maven
(10,533 posts)7. ...
calimary
(81,248 posts)8. Let's see him try to tweet this away.
He's got a repertoire of them! All under the heading of "hey look OVER THERE!!! What about ... (fill in the blank here: Hillary, the Dems, some GOPer he doesn't like, etc)."
imanamerican63
(13,787 posts)9. No winning here!
Grammy23
(5,810 posts)10. Well, seems to me like I remember him bragging about "unleashing" the economy.
He will have to look around and find someone to blame. Obama, Congress, anybody but him. He forgot the Buck Stops Here. But it won't stop him from ranting and raving and throwing up a smoke screen around himself in order to place blame somewhere, anywhere but on him.