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Urgent: U.S. adds 223,000 jobs in April, unemployment rate edges down to 5.4 pct

Xinhua, May 8, 2015 Adjust font size:

The U.S. economy added 223,000 jobs in April, rebounding sharply from an unusually weak data in March, and the unemployment rate edged down to 5.4 percent, the Labor Department reported Friday. Endi