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August Payroll Employment Rises (+96,000); Unemployment Rate Edges Down (8.1%)

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—September 7, 2012.  Total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 96,000 in August, and the unemployment rate edged down to 8.1 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today.

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Employment increased in food services and drinking places, in professional and technical services, and in health care.

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The unemployment rate edged down in August to 8.1 percent. Since the beginning of this year, the rate has held in a narrow range of…

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