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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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    Obama's Speech and 2012 Conventions, Revisited
    1. 0:00Disappointing August Jobs NumbersYou’re reading this
    2. 7:36President Obama Swings for the Fences and Fence-Straddlers
    3. 30:13Conventions: Do We Need Them?
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      Judy Muller

      University of Southern California

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      Frances Anderton

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      Pedro da Costa

      Reuters News Service

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    The full episode

    1 of 3
    Obama's Speech and 2012 Conventions, Revisited
    1. 0:00Disappointing August Jobs NumbersYou’re reading this
    2. 7:36President Obama Swings for the Fences and Fence-Straddlers
    3. 30:13Conventions: Do We Need Them?
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