U.S. Nonfarm Payrolls Rose 315K in August, Unemployment Rate at 3.7%
U.S. Nonfarm Payrolls Rose 315K in August, Unemployment Rate at 3.7%
The U.S. added a robust 315,000 new jobs in August, showing that businesses still have a big appetite for labor even as the economy slows and worries about a recession grow.
美国8月份新增就业岗位31.5万个这表明,尽管经济放缓,对经济衰退的担忧加剧,但企业对劳动力的需求仍然很大。
The increase in hiring basically matched Wall Street estimates. Economists polled by The Wall Street Journal had forecast 318,000 new jobs.
招聘人数的增长基本符合华尔街的预期。接受《华尔街日报》调查的经济学家此前预测新增就业岗位31.8万个。
The unemployment rate, meanwhile, rose to 3.7% from 3.5%, the government said Friday, mostly because more people entered the labor force in search of work. The jobless rate last month matched a 50-year low set in 2019 shortly before the outbreak of the coronavirus.
与此同时,失业率从3.5%上升到3.7%政府周五表示,这主要是因为更多的人进入劳动力大军寻找工作。上个月的失业率与2019年冠状病毒爆发前不久创下的50年低点持平。