Jobless figures fuel fears for US recovery
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The US created just 18,000 jobs last month, far below expectations and no significant help to the 14.1m Americans looking for work.
It follows a disappointing May, when 25,000 jobs were created, compared with more than 200,000 a month earlier this year. Meanwhile, the unemployment rate ticked up to 9.2 per cent, Economists hoped it would remain flat.
And there was no sign in the figures of a build-up of demand that could shake the economy out of its funk in coming months. The number of temporary workers hired – an indicator that employers are responding to extra demand – fell for the third month.
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