Total US non-farm payroll employment changed little in August (plus 22,000) month on month (MoM) and has shown little change since April.
Manufacturing employment changed little in August (minus 12,000 MoM), but was down by 78,000 over the year.
Both the unemployment rate, at 4.3 per cent, and the number of unemployed people, at 7.4 million, also changed little in the month MoM as well as YoY.