美國失業率下降

The U.S. says its labor market advanced again in August, with its unemployment rate hitting the lowest point since late 2008 and employers adding another 169,000 jobs.

The government said Friday that the jobless rate last month edged down to 7.3 percent.

The number of new jobs in August showed the U.S. economy, the world's largest, is advancing, but only modestly and not as fast as in early 2013.

In its newest report, the government also revised its job count for June and July downward, saying that a combined 74,000 fewer jobs were added in the two months than first estimated.

The relatively weak job growth could complicate economic decisions for the country's central bank, the Federal Reserve.

Policy makers at the Fed have been weighing whether to cut the $85-billion-a-month purchase of securities they have been making to pump more money into the U.S. economy to boost its recovery.

The central bank has said that it might begin to pare back the purchases this year and end them by mid-2014. The policy makers are set to meet in two weeks and could order a cutback then, or wait and consider more economic reports before acting.
Senior Haqqani Commander Killed in Drone Strike in Pakistan美國勞工部說，美國就業市場8月份繼續擴張，失業率降至2008年末以來的最低點，僱主又增加16萬9000就業崗位。

政府星期五說，上個月的失業率微幅降至7.3%.

8月份新的就業數據顯示，世界最大的經濟體美國的經濟正在擴張，但僅是適度擴張，速度不及2013年年初。

美國政府在最新的報告中還下修了6月和7月的就業數據，跟第一次預估數字相比，兩個月共減少了7萬4千個就業人數，相對疲弱的就業增長可能會讓美聯儲的經濟決策變得複雜化。

美聯儲的決策者們一直在考慮是否減少每個月850億美元購入債券的數量。美國央行通過購買債券向美國經濟注入資金，推動復甦。

美聯儲表示，央行可能今年減少購入債券，並且在2014年中期之前結束購買。決策者們準備兩個星期之後開會，會後可能下令減少購買，或者等待，在採取行動之前考慮更多的經濟報告。