President Biden on Friday pinned the blame for disappointing monthly job-growth figures on the Delta variant of COVID-19 — using the report to urge Congress to pass his proposals for $4.7 trillion in new federal spending.
The US added just 235,000 jobs in August, far short of the 720,000 positions that economists surveyed by Dow Jones expected, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data.
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