Unemployment rate drops; few jobs added

Daily Breeze;  June 8, 2002 ;     445 words ...Unemployment rate drops; few jobs added ECONOMY...decrease in the unemployment rate, which records...unable to find jobs, was bolstered...predicted that the unemployment rate would rise to...would add 68,000 jobs to payrolls outside...

Jobless rate up, but state adds jobs; Unemployment rate is highest since...

Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN);  January 21, 2004 ;     700+ words ......landing those jobs and the unemployment rate is going to come...reported 1,000 jobs last month but saw the unemployment rate dip to 5.7 percent...we're adding jobs. Mike Blahnik...unemployment Minnesota's unemployment rate, seasonally adjusted...

COUNTY UNEMPLOYMENT RATE FALLS; JOBS GROWTH TOWARD 1990 LEVEL FOLLOWS...

Daily News (Los Angeles, CA);  November 22, 1997 ;     405 words ......by adding 3,300 jobs. ``The unemployment rate continued to decline...wage and salary jobs, and the lowered unemployment rate at 6.6 percent...Although the jobs outlook remains...percent the county's unemployment rate ranked 28th in...

ECONOMY ADDING JOBS BUT THE UNEMPLOYMENT RATE ROSE IN DECEMBER TO 5.8...

Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA);  January 19, 2005 ;     514 words ......ago. However, the unemployment rate inched up from...creating enough jobs. Last month, Washington...enough to hold the unemployment rate steady. We had...and looking for jobs in December. Pauer...In October, the unemployment rate registered 5.6...2,900 statewide ...

'Crank the handle, and jobs pop out': Although unemployment rate ticked up...

Morning Call (Allentown, PA);  January 4, 2007 ;     477 words ......key job sectors reached all-time highs. The unemployment rate rose one-tenth of a percent to 4.3 percent...Through the first 11 months of 2006, the average unemployment rate for the Lehigh Valley was 4.5 percent. In 2005, the average unemployment rate in the Valley was 4.8 percent. ...

Unemployment rate holds at 6 percent in December; Companies slash 101,000...

AP Worldstream;  January 10, 2003 ;     153 words ......WASHINGTON The nation's unemployment rate held steady at 6 percent...manufacturers cost over 101,000 jobs, the sharpest loss in 10...for jobseekers who saw the unemployment rate surge from 5.6 percent in...shopping season, shed 104,000 jobs. Factories slashed 65,000 jobs to ...

Texas Sees More Jobs, but Unemployment Rate Holds.

The Dallas Morning News (Dallas, Texas) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News);  September 19, 2003 ;     584 words ......gained 28,500 jobs in August...the state unemployment rate was unchanged...recovery. The unemployment rate for the Dallas...gain of 3,900 jobs in August...number of jobs added or lost and the unemployment rate are derived...

California Unemployment Rate Dips, but State Is Still Losing Jobs.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;  September 13, 2003 ;     519 words ......continued losing jobs. The unemployment rate fell to 6.6...added 4,900 jobs, mainly in health...Sacramento area's unemployment rate, although it...total of 800 jobs in August. But...shrank so the unemployment rate fell. David...

State unemployment rate rises slightly in October; Manufacturing jobs on...

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  November 17, 2006 ;     301 words ...Wisconsin's unemployment rate rose a notch last month, even while employers kept adding jobs, according to preliminary data released...Department of Workforce Development. The unemployment rate hit 3.9% in October, up from 3.8...with a net addition of nearly 10,000 jobs since September ...

Jobs aren't coming to the party; Few new jobs created, but U.S....

Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN);  January 10, 2004 ;     700+ words ......a paltry 1,000 jobs in December, the...had expected. The unemployment rate fell slightly...the lack of new jobs got most of the...shocking because jobs were much, much...Minneapolis. But the unemployment rate was equally shocking...where the overall unemployment ...

Unemployment rate falls to 5.7 percent in January as companies add 143,000...

AP Worldstream;  February 7, 2003 ;     401 words ......WASHINGTON The nation's unemployment rate dropped to 5.7...added 143,000 new jobs, a shot of good...had expected the unemployment rate to hold steady...The surge in new jobs was concentrated...economists expect the unemployment rate to rise to as high...since then ...

Economy Lost 100,000 Jobs In December; Unemployment Rate Remains at 8-...

The Washington Post;  January 11, 2003 ;     700+ words ......more than 100,000 jobs last month, reducing...2001, while the unemployment rate remained at 6 percent...said the loss of jobs and downward revisions...and people with jobs -- 94 percent of...stability of the unemployment rate masked some changes...private-payroll jobs ...

June Estimates Indicate Nearly 24,000 Jobs Gained in First Half of 2005;...

Italian Voice, The;  August 18, 2005 ;     631 words ......economy continued to expand during June. The State's unemployment rate was relatively unchanged over the month moving...with the same period in 2004, the State's average unemployment rate has declined a full percentage point from 5.1...from May to June. The reported increase of 3,800 jobs ...

US economy creates 268,000 jobs in June Unemployment rate nudges up; Dow...

The Boston Globe;  July 3, 1999 ;     549 words ......economy generated 268,000 jobs in June, restoring energy...showed that the nation's unemployment rate inched up last month...estimated that 11,000 jobs were created in May...June's job gains, the unemployment rate rose 0.1 percentage...Economists said yesterday's jobs report ...

Rhode Island Unemployment Rate Jumps; 800 Jobs Lost.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;  April 16, 2004 ;     527 words ......Rhode Island's unemployment rate last month spiked...state lost 800 jobs, a government report...spending. Nationally, jobs last month grew...000, even as the unemployment rate ticked up one-tenth...release its March jobs report today, has...Massachusetts shed 9,500 jobs ...