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Improving trend reasserts itself

Our econometric model implies that the easing injob growth and the rise in the unemployment ratein July were just blips in otherwise improvingtrends. We estimate that payroll employment roseby around 225,000 in August and that theunemployment rate fell back to 6.1%.

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