The March Employment Report
Friday, April 01, 2011
The March Employment Report
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released the employment
report for March:
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/empsit.pdf
Key Statistics:
- The unemployment rate for March is 8.8%. The unemployment
rate was 8.9% in February and 9.0% in January.
- The percentage and number of long-term unemployed was 45.5% and
6.1 million in March, from 43.9% and 6.0 million in February.
- The labor force grew by 160,000 in March and the labor force
participation rate held steady at 64.2%.
- There were 13.5 million unemployed in March. There were 13.7
million unemployed in February.
- Private sector employment rose 230,000 while government
employment fell by 14,000
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