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Contractors Kept Hiring in July, Adding 25K Jobs
Construction maintained its streak of monthly jobs gains in July, but an overall slowdown in hiring and an increase in the nationwide unemployment rate, to 4.3%, cast doubt on the ability of the U.S. economy to sustain growth moving forward. “It appears …