The growth was led by leisure and hospitality and health care and social assistance, with each category adding more than 40,000 jobs, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics .
The August jobs report came in weaker than expected , and employment growth by different industries showed a mixed bag for the U.S. economy .
If private education is included with the health-care group, as some economists do, that category would have grown by 47,000 jobs.
Construction was a bright spot, growing by 34,000 jobs, but manufacturing shed 24,000 jobs.
The health-care subsector added 31,000 jobs, or about half its average over the prior 12 months, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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