Article: DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA'S UNEMPLOYMENT RATE DROPS TO 6.4 PERCENT IN JUNE 2008

Article: 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...

Article: Good news on job front ; First monthly increase in jobs in year, even as unemployment rate edges up
The Patriot Ledger Quincy, MA;  June 19, 2009 ;     380 words ......as the national unemployment rate hovered at a 25-ye...total number of jobs. The state office...were 2,500 new jobs posted in the...which lost 2,600 jobs, and in government...the number of jobs in Massachusetts...to 3.19 million jobs, according to the state. The state's ...

Article: Jobless rate up, but state adds jobs; Unemployment rate is highest since 1993.(BUSINESS)
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...

Article: COUNTY UNEMPLOYMENT RATE FALLS; JOBS GROWTH TOWARD 1990 LEVEL FOLLOWS NATIONAL TREND.(NEWS)(Statistical Data Included)
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...

Article: ECONOMY ADDING JOBS BUT THE UNEMPLOYMENT RATE ROSE IN DECEMBER TO 5.8 PERCENT.(Business)
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 ...

Article: 'Crank the handle, and jobs pop out': Although unemployment rate ticked up slightly, Valley's labor market is strong.
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. ...

Article: The bad news on jobs gets worse; With 11,800 jobs lost in December, Minnesota's unemployment rate was pushed up to 6.9 percent.(NEWS)
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN);  January 23, 2009 ;     700+ words ......employers slashed 11,800 jobs in December, driving the state's unemployment rate to a staggering 6.9...more than twice as many jobs in November than they...Even so, November's unemployment rate, which is based on the...Employers are cutting jobs in nearly every sector...tens ...

Article: 70,700 more full-time jobs vanish; Unemployment rate rises to 6.6% after December payroll erosions; economists see 7.9% on horizon.(Business)
The Toronto Star (Toronto, Ontario);  January 10, 2009 ;     661 words ......Perry Canada's unemployment rate climbed to 6.6...as 34,400 more jobs fell victim to...slashed 524,000 jobs in December. Those...pushed the U.S. unemployment rate to 7.2 per cent...offset the 66,000 jobs lost the previous...that Ontario's unemployment rate - ...

Article: 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...

Article: Unemployment rate at two-year high, 7.6%. 228,000 are out of work; 35,000 workers lost their jobs in Jan.-March
Jerusalem Post;  May 28, 2009 ;     557 words ...Headline: Unemployment rate at two-year high...workers lost their jobs in Jan.-March...boosting the unemployment rate of the civilian...from 5.5%. The unemployment rate rose across all...which added 10,400 jobs to 291,000. Keywords...

Article: STATE JOBLESS RATE: 8.2%; The 23,200 jobs lost in March took Minnesota to its worst unemployment rate in 26 years. Manufacturing was hit hard.(BUSINESS)
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN);  April 17, 2009 ;     700+ words ......incorrect. Minnesota's unemployment rate rose to 8.2 percent...employers eliminated 23,200 jobs -- the biggest one...the state's highest unemployment rate since November 1982...manufacturing, which lost 6,700 jobs, and professional/business...forecasting that the national ...

Article: 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...

Article: State unemployment rate rises slightly in October; Manufacturing jobs on the decline, but other sectors performing well
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 ...

Article: Jobs aren't coming to the party; Few new jobs created, but U.S. unemployment rate still drops.(BUSINESS)
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 ...