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August jobs report likely to point to a still-slow recovery

by AP Economics Writer
| September 3, 2020 9:03 PM

WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States keeps regaining more of the jobs that vanished when the viral pandemic flattened the economy early this spring. Yet so deep were the layoffs that began in March that millions of Americans remain burdened by job losses that might prove permanent.

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