Last month’s job growth helped shrink the unemployment rate to 3.6%, just above the half-century low of 3.5% that was reached 2 years ago.

Businesses that include banks, retail outlets, truck stops and grocery stores ask the Treasury Department for more help convincing Americans to get coins back in circulation.

The alliance, which includes Russia, has been unmoved by pleas from oil-consuming countries to pump more oil as energy prices soar.

The president also wants Congress to impose financial penalties on oil and gas companies that lease public lands but are not producing.