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| Jobless rate rises to 5 percent Jobless rate rises to 5 percent WASHINGTON - Hiring practically stalled in December, driving the nation’s unemployment rate up to a two-year high of 5 percent and fanning fears of a recession. Employers last month added the fewest new jobs to their payrolls in more than four years, according to the employment report released Friday by the Labor Department. The report showed that employment conditions are deteriorating, strained by a housing slump and credit crunch that are sapping economic strength. “The economy is getting hit by some body blows. The big question is whether the economy can withstand it or will it take a fall,” said Ken Mayland, president of ClearView Economics. The unemployment rate jumped from 4.7 percent in November to 5 percent in December, the highest since November 2005 after the Gulf Coast hurricanes dealt the country a mighty blow. Payrolls — both private employers and government — grew by just 18,000 last month, the worst showing since August 2003, when the economy suffered job losses as it struggled to recover from the 2001 recession. The December employment picture was much weaker than economists were expecting. They were forecasting the unemployment rate to bump up to 4.8 percent and for employers to add around 70,000 jobs to their payrolls. [LINK POSTED BY MEMBER] Only Members Can View This Truck Forum Link. .
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| I'd like to see the real numbers...there are a lot of people who aren't counted because they aren't on the roles...they've used up the unemployment or don't qualify for one reason or another..then there are the 'underemployed' those that work temp jobs until they find something perm. I doubt they are counted either..it would be interesting to know the numbers...is there somewhere that information is available? KJ |
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| 5.0% still is below average, what's your point?  |
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| double post.........please delete.
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| Good on Ronno....lmao ah, but what's your point? KJ |
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| The point is that the unemployment number only shows a certain segment. It showed it under Clinton, Nixon, everybody. To try and skew the number now only because Bush is in office is a dishonest argument. |
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