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Urgent: U.S. unemployment rate drops to 5.1 pct in August

Xinhua, September 4, 2015 Adjust font size:

The U.S. total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 173,000 in August, and the unemployment rate went down to 5.1 percent, at a level which Federal Reserve considers to be full employment, data from the Labor Department showed Friday. Endi