President Joe Biden addresses weak August jobs report

President Joe Biden is addressing the public about the weaker-than-expected August jobs report, as surging COVID-19 cases driven by the Delta variant and accompanying legislation providing unemployment supplements weigh on the economic recovery. The US added just 235,000 jobs last month, way short of the 720,000 new jobs that economists surveyed by Dow Jones expected to see, according to Friday’s highly anticipated jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.-- More...