wage: Economists had predicted the economy would add around 192,000 and that the unemployment rate would fall to 3.8%, down from 3.9% last month, according to The Guardian. Sign up to receive the top US stories every morning Wage growth picked up slightly in August, rising 2.9% from a year earlier. There are signs that the rate is slowing, however, and wage growth continues to lag as it has done since the end of the Great Recession. But the rate of growth remains sluggish and hasn't beaten 3% since 2009 despite the record number of jobs added. Those figures showed 147,000 jobs added in July and 208,000 in June. The jobs figures for July and August were revised down.
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