August 2017 US Unemployment Rate – IRP Poverty Dispatch

U.S. employers add 156,000 jobs in August; unemployment rate edges up to 4.4%, By Don Lee, September 1, 2017, Los Angeles Times: “August was a good month for blue-collar jobs, but hiring on the whole tailed off from earlier in the summer and there was no indication of an upturn in wage growth, which has been missing in the nation’s long economic recovery…”
Jobs report: Hiring slowed in August, as U.S. added 156,000 positions, By Nelson D. Schwartz, September 1, 2017, New York Times: “The Labor Department on Friday released the August figures on hiring and unemployment. This is the latest official snapshot of the state of the American economy…”