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U.S. Adds 162,000 Jobs in August, Beating Forecasts Despite Earlier Revisions

The United States added 162,000 jobs in August, exceeding expectations and giving the Trump administration a stronger headline labor figure even as economists pointed to downward revisions in earlier months as a sign of underlying weakness.
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