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Industry's August unemployment rate slipped to 3.6% from July's 3.8% but rose from year-earlier 3.4%.

Construction added 21,000 jobs in June, up from gain of 5,000 the previous month.

Industry added 4,000 jobs in May, well below April's increase of 30,000, BLS reports.

Industry's 4.7% unemployment rate is its lowest for April since 2000, economists note.

Industry recoups nearly two-thirds of the 25,000 jobs it lost in February, Bureau of Labor Statistics reports.

Economists say severe weather helped cause job losses.

BLS reports construction added 5,000 jobs in Nov., a more modest gain than in Oct. and Sept.

Industry's unemployment rate dips to 3.6% from Sept. 4.1%, year-earlier 4.5%, BLS reports.

Nonresidential specialty contractors add 9,300 positions, heavy-civil segment gains 7,100.