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VIDEO: 1st jobs report since Trump fired BLS head comes in below expectations
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1st jobs report since Trump fired BLS head comes in below expectations

Only 22,000 jobs were added to the workforce in August, below economists’ expectations, while the unemployment rate ticked up to 4.3%, the highest in nearly four years.

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