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U.S. Employers Add 215,000 Jobs In July

Today’s jobs report from the Department of Labor showed the American economy added 215,000 jobs in July. The unemployment rate held steady at 5.3 percent.  Here & Now’s Peter O’Dowd looks at the details of the report with Mike Regan of Bloomberg News.

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