The drop in the jobless rate were mainly seen in the amusement and recreational services, restaurants and hotels, and sanitary service sectors.
I feel joking that, we continue to destroy the nature, and employ more people to amend it. It is so called creating job opportunity and reducing the jobless rate.
Switzerland and Denmark link spending on such policies to their jobless rates to ensure that a fixed amount of spending is not Shared between a larger pool of unemployed.
Although the jobless rate across the bloc rose only slightly, there were significant differences in individual countries.
The jobless rate soared to 6.1% in August; with falling asset prices and tighter credit making it harder for consumers to borrow, lost paychecks will have a more immediate impact on their consumption.
Some studies have found that this factor may explain as much as 70% of the difference in black and white unemployment rates, and may also explain the difference between black and Latino jobless rates.
But Geithner told the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, that the growth rate is still too slow to quickly bring down the U.S. jobless rate.
A recent study of their effect, by economists at the San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank, pegged their contribution at just 0.4 percentage points of the close-to-10% jobless rate.
Less than six years after hitting 10.8%, the post-war record, in 1982, America's jobless rate was close to 5%.
In such Californian cities as Fresno, Merced and El Centro, jobless rates are higher than in Detroit.
Our survey of 1,500 youth found that the self declared or perceived jobless rate was even higher, at 35 to 40 percent.
Spain's jobless rate has increased by more than 8 percentage points in the past 12 months, much of it attributable to a collapse in the construction industry.
Unless employment growth in the rest of the economy speeds up and absorbs some of the surplus, the overall jobless rate will soon rise, perhaps rather further than the central bankers would like.
The jobless rate rose to 8.1 percent in January, the highest since March 2005, the Federal Statistics Service said yesterday.
Unemployment started to rise again, returning to 2.5m and a jobless rate of 7.9%.
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