Article: Employment and unemployment developments, June 2004.

Nonfarm payroll employment continued to rise in June, and the unemployment rate remained at 5.6 percent. Payroll employment increased by 112,000 in June, following larger gains in the prior 3 months.

Unemployment

The number of unemployed persons, 8.2 million, was essentially unchanged in June, and the unemployment rate held steady at 5.6 percent. The unemployment rate has been 5.6 percent in all but one month this year. The unemployment rates for the major worker groups--adult men (5.0 percent), adult women (5.0 percent), teenagers (16.8 percent), whites (5.0 percent), blacks (10.1 percent), and Hispanics or Latinos (6.7 percent)--showed little or no ...

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