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The latest Employment Situation news release has been posted on the BLS website at http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/empsit.pdf and also archived at http://www.bls.gov/news.release/archives/empsit_02032012.pdf . Highlights are below. Payroll employment rises 243,000 in January; unemployment rate decreases to 8.3% 02/03/2012 Nonfarm payroll employment rose by 243,000 in January, and the unemployment rate decreased to 8.3 percent. Job growth was widespread, with large gains in professional and business services, leisure and hospitality, and manufacturing.

The latest Employment Situation news release has been posted on the BLS website at http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/empsit.pdf and also archived at http://www.bls.gov/news.release/archives/empsit_01062012.pdf . Highlights are below. Payroll employment rises 200,000 in December; jobless rate (8.5%) continues to trend down. Nonfarm payroll employment rose by 200,000 in December, and the unemployment rate, at 8.5 percent, continued to trend down. Job gains occurred in transportation and warehousing, retail trade, manufacturing, health care, and mining.

THE EMPLOYMENT SITUATION -- JULY 2011 Total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 117,000 in July, and the unemployment rate was little changed at 9.1 percent , the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Job gains occurred in health care, retail trade, manufacturing, and mining. Government employment continued to trend down. Household Survey Data The number of unemployed persons (13.9 million) and the unemployment rate (9.1 percent) changed little in July. Since April, the unemployment rate has shown little definitive movement. The labor force, at 153.2 million, was little changed in July. (See table A-1.) Among the major worker groups, the unemployment rates for adult men(9.0 percent), adult women (7.9 percent), teenagers (25.0 percent), whites (8.1 percent), blacks (15.9 percent), and Hispanics (11.3 percent) showed little or no change in July. The jobless rate for Asians was 7.7 percent, not seasonally adjusted. (See tables A-1, A-2, and A-3.) The number of...

--------------------------------------------------------------------------- The latest Employment Situation news release ( http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/empsit.pdf ) was issued today by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Highlights are below. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nonfarm payroll employment rose by 290,000 in April, the unemployment rate edged up to 9.9 percent, and the labor force increased sharply. Job gains occurred in manufacturing, professional and business services, health care, and leisure and hospitality. Federal government employment also rose, reflecting continued hiring of temporary workers for Census 2010. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- News releases archives: http://www.bls.gov/schedule/archives/all_nr.htm -------------------------------------------------------------------------

In the January 8, 2010 article " Economy loses 85K jobs, unemployment rate steady ," Associated Press economics writer Christopher Rugaber summarizes the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistic's employment situation report for December 2009. The BLS publishes its Employment Situation Summary on the first Friday of each month. It also provides other extensive U.S. labor market data . WASHINGTON – Lack of confidence in the economic recovery led employers to shed a more-than-expected 85,000 jobs in December even as the unemployment rate held at 10 percent. The rate would have been higher if more people had been looking for work instead of leaving the labor force because they can't find jobs. The sharp drop in the work force — 661,000 fewer people — showed that more of the jobless are giving up on their search for work. Once people stop looking for jobs, they are no longer counted among the unemployed. When discouraged workers and part-time workers who would prefer full-time j...

--------------------------------------------------------------------------- The latest Employment Situation news release (http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/empsit.pdf) was issued today by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Highlights are below. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nonfarm payroll employment edged down (-85,000) in December, and the unemployment rate was unchanged at 10.0 percent. Employment fell in construction, manufacturing, and wholesale trade, while temporary help services and health care added jobs. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- News releases archives: http://www.bls.gov/schedule/archives/all_nr.htm To subscribe or unsubscribe to BLS news releases please visit http://www.bls.gov/bls/list.htm For help, email news_service@bls.gov -------------------------------------------------------------------------