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The Lower Unemployment Rate: Getting Jobs, Or Giving Up?
Between the stock market nosedive and the S&P downgrade (based on a $2 trillion math error), last week wasn't a great one for the U.S. economic outlook. There was, however, one glimmer of hope: U.S. employers reported they added an above-expected 117,000 jobs in July, as the unemployment rate fell from 9.2 percent to 9.1 percent.
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