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Jobs report: Unemployment drops to lowest rate in nearly five years

The Labor Department released August jobs numbers, which show U.S. employers adding 169,000 jobs and the unemployment rate is down to 7.3 percent. CBS News business analyst Jill Schlesinger talks to the "CBS This Morning" co-hosts about the new figures.
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