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  "id": 10729269,
  "title": "US employment data August: Job openings fall, layoffs decline as labour market holds steady",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/29/us-employment-data-august-job-openings-fall-layoffs-decline-as-labour",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-09-29T16:16:34.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Live Mint",
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    "url": "https://www.livemint.com/news/us-news/us-employment-data-august-job-openings-fall-layoffs-decline-as-labour-market-holds-steady-11790697954384.html"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Job openings, a measure of labour demand, fell by 256,000 to 7.079 million on the last day of August, the US Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics said in its Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) report on Tuesday.",
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      {
        "outlet": "Seeking Alpha News",
        "title": "Job openings cool more than expected in August: JOLTS report",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/29/job-openings-cool-more-than-expected-in-august-jolts-report",
        "published": "2026-09-29T14:02:47.000Z"
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      {
        "outlet": "FXStreet",
        "title": "US JOLTS Job openings dropped to 7.079 million in August",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/29/us-jolts-job-openings-dropped-to-7-079-million-in-august",
        "published": "2026-09-29T14:03:06.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Winnipeg Free Press",
        "title": "U.S. job openings slipped to 7.1 million in August but labor market remains sturdy",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/29/u-s-job-openings-slipped-to-7-1-million-in-august-but-labor-market",
        "published": "2026-09-29T14:11:32.000Z"
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}