The U.S. unemployment rate surged in August to its highest level in nearly four years as companies hacked 113,000 workers from their payrolls, the government said on Friday in a startlingly bleak sign for the U.S. economy. The jobless rate climbed to 4.9 percent from 4.5 percent in July, the Labor Department said.
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