https://freerepublic.com/tag/manipulated4season/ en-us Fri, 8 Oct 2010 12:44:19 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2603765/posts Nonfarm payroll employment edged down (-95,000) in September, and the unem- ployment rate was unchanged at 9.6 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Sta- tistics reported today. Government employment declined (-159,000), reflec- ting both a drop in the number of temporary jobs for Census 2010 and job losses in local government. Private-sector payroll employment continued to trend up modestly (+64,000). Household Survey Data The number of unemployed persons, at 14.8 million, was essentially un- changed in September, and the unemployment rate held at 9.6 percent. (See table A-1.) Among the major worker groups, the unemployment rate for adult men (9.8... Bureau of Labor Statistics https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2603765/posts#comment Fri, 8 Oct 2010 12:44:19 GMT