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Article: Employment and unemployment developments, August 2002.
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- Employment and Earnings
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- September 1, 2002
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Both payroll employment and the unemployment rate were little changed in August. Job gains in services, government, and construction were largely offset by losses in manufacturing and retail trade.
Unemployment
Both the unemployment rate, 5.7 percent, and the number of unemployed persons, 8.1 million, were little changed over the month. The jobless rates for the major worker groups--adult men (5.2 percent), adult women (4.9 percent), teenagers (17.2 percent), whites (5.1 percent), blacks (9.6 percent), and Hispanics (7.5 percent)--showed little or no change. (See tables A-3 and A-4.)
The number of persons unemployed 15 weeks or more was 2.8 ...
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