1. Good news for employment in the U.S. — especially for the least-educated workers.

The country added 157,000 jobs in July, continuing a strong hiring streak. The figure was slightly below what economists expected, and unemployment fell to 3.9 percent from 4.0.

But the unemployment rate for workers without a high school diploma fell to 5.1 percent — its lowest since the government began collecting that data, in 1992.