U.S. Unemployment Rate Falls To 50-Year Low, Though Jobs And Wage Growth Slowing

U.S. employers added 136,000 net new jobs in September, helping drop the unemployment to its lowest rate, 3.5%, since December 1969, according to the latest report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. But the report also confirms that the rates of both jobs growth and average wage growth are slowing. Though the BLS revised upwards…