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DIFFERENT FOCUS
Coverage broadly emphasized Wage Stagnation, Fed Risk; Fox Business and Daily Wire emphasized Strong Rebound, Trump Era Trend.
LEFT FOCUS
- ▸Average hourly earnings rose just 3.1% annually — the slowest wage growth in over five years. — Marketplace
- ▸Glassdoor's chief economist warned that month-to-month data swings and revisions make the underlying trend hard to read. — Axios
- ▸Women's growing power in the labor market is reflected in their near-total share of August's job gains. — CNBC
RIGHT FOCUS
- ▸Private payrolls added 127,000 jobs, well above LSEG economists' estimate of 45,000. — Fox Business
- ▸Government payrolls added 35,000 jobs in August. — Fox Business
- ▸Women have accounted for essentially all net U.S. job growth since President Trump's inauguration, a trend that widened sharply in August. — Daily Wire
