With No New Jobs in August, Calls for Urgent Action

``The optics of a giant zero in the jobs column -- more symbolically powerful, perhaps, than even a small decrease might have been -- increase the pressure on President Obama as he prepares to deliver a major address on job creation next week, on Republicans who have a starkly different approach to economic revival and on the Federal Reserve, whose policy makers have been divided over the wisdom of using its limited arsenal of tools to get the economy moving again. ''