The US labor market continues to slow. The August jobs report released Friday by the the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) showed there were just 22,000 new jobs added to the economy last month, far ...

*The pace of hiring slowed in August, while the U.S. unemployment rate edged up. Nonfarm payrolls rose by a seasonally adjusted 156,000 in August from the prior month, the Labor Department said. The ...

Nonfarm payrolls (NFP) rose by only 22,000 for August, down from an upwardly revised 79,000 for July. The slowdown in NFP gains over the past several months suggests that the overall economy is ...