US hiring slows in August, 151K jobs added and unemployment rate remains at 4.9%

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    U.S. employers slowed their hiring in August and barely raised wages. They added a modest 151,000 jobs, about half the blockbuster gains of the two previous months. The Associated Press reports the…


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