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Disappointing August Jobs Numbers

President Obama would have loved some good economic figures coming out of this convention, but that's not what he got this morning. Job growth slowed substantially in August, with a total of 96, 000 jobs added, far below the 125,000 economists had been expecting. Pedro da Costa is economics correspondent for Reuters News Service .

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KCRW placeholderBy Judy Muller • May 12, 2014 • 1 min read

President Obama would have loved some good economic figures coming out of this convention, but that's not what he got this morning. Job growth slowed substantially in August, with a total of 96, 000 jobs added, far below the 125,000 economists had been expecting. Pedro da Costa is economics correspondent for Reuters News Service.

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    Judy Muller

    University of Southern California

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    Frances Anderton

    architecture critic and author

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    Pedro da Costa

    Reuters News Service

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