Unemployment rates were lower in August in 15 states and the District of Columbia and stable in 35 states, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Texas was among the three states having the largest job increases at +681,000.
Forty-nine states and the District had jobless rate decreases from a year earlier and one state was little changed. The national unemployment rate, 5.2...
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