August Jobs Report: Job Growth Slows, Rising Unemployment Rate

OAN’s Alicia Summers
1:37 PM – Friday, September 1, 2023

The August jobs report indicates that U.S. employers added 187,000 jobs last month, surpassing expectations, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. However, the unemployment rate increased from 3.5% to 3.8%, reaching its highest level since February 2022. Eddy Gifford, a Wealth Advisor with TACTIVE, discusses this on OAN with Alicia Summers.

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