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Pototan

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Fri Oct 4, 2024, 08:01 AM Oct 2024

254,00 jobs created for month of Sept.; Unemployment rate drops to 4.1% [View all]

The U.S. economy added far more jobs than expected in September, pointing to a vital employment picture as the unemployment rate edged lower, the Labor Department reported Friday.

Nonfarm payrolls surged by 254,000 for the month, up from a revised 159,000 in August and better than the 150,000 Dow Jones consensus forecast. The unemployment rate fell to 4.1%, down 0.1 percentage point

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/10/04/september-2024-us-jobs-report.html

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