Dollars and Jens
Friday, June 04, 2010
 
employment situation






MarchAprilMayΔ
Civilian labor force153,910 154,715 154,393 -322
Participation rate64.9 65.2 65.0 -0.2
Employed138,905 139,455 139,420 -35
Employment-population ratio58.6 58.8 58.7 -0.1
Unemployed15,005 15,260 14,973 -287
Unemployment rate9.7 9.9 9.7 -0.2
These are from the household survey; the payroll survey shows an increase of 431,000 nonfarm jobs, of which 390,000 are government jobs, many of them for the census.


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