Hiring slowed sharply in August across the U.S. as employers added a disappointing 235,000 jobs, with COVID-19 surges dampening both consumer demand and Americans’ willingness to return to work, according to reporting from USA Today on Friday.
Restaurants and bars, which had been driving record employment gains, shed jobs.
The unemployment rate, which is calculated from a different survey, fell from 5.4% to 5.2%, the Labor Department said Friday.
