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January Employment Report: 598,000 Thousand Jobs Lost, Unemployment Rate 7.6%

Calculated Risk... | Fri, 02/06/2009 - 2:30pm | Bureau of Labor Statistics, employment numbers, job numbers, nonfarm payroll employment, Payroll employment, U.S. Department of Labor, unemployment rate |  4 comments

From the BLS : Nonfarm payroll employment fell sharply in January (-598,000) and the unemployment rate rose from 7.2 to 7.6 percent, the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor reported today. Payroll employment has declined by 3.6 million since the start of the recession in Dec ... Read more