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.
美國8月份新增就業崗位31.5萬個這表明，儘管經濟放緩，對經濟衰退的擔憂加劇，但企業對勞動力的需求仍然很大。
The increase in hiring basically matched Wall Street estimates. Economists polled by The Wall Street Journal had forecast 318,000 new jobs.
招聘人數的增長基本符合華爾街的預期。接受《華爾街日報》調查的經濟學家此前預測新增就業崗位31.8萬個。
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.
與此同時，失業率從3.5%上升到3.7%政府週五表示，這主要是因為更多的人進入勞動力大軍尋找工作。上個月的失業率與2019年冠狀病毒爆發前不久創下的50年低點持平。
