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April 07, 2008 (The Editor’s Desk is updated each business day.) Unemployment rate up in March 2008The unemployment rate rose from 4.8 percent in February 2008 to 5.1 percent in March 2008. The number of unemployed persons increased by 434,000 to 7.8 million in March. Since March 2007, the number of unemployed persons has increased by 1.1 million, and the unemployment rate has risen by 0.7 percentage point. Over the month, unemployment rates rose for adult men, adult women, and Hispanics. The jobless rates edged up for blacks and whites, while the rate for teenagers was essentially unchanged. These data are from the Current Population Survey program and are seasonally adjusted. To learn more, see "The Employment Situation: March 2008" (PDF) (HTML), news release USDL 08-0448. Happy 10th Birthday, TED!The very first issue of The Editor's Desk (TED) was posted on September 28, 1998. TED was the first online-only publication of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. For 10 years, BLS has been committed to posting a new TED article each business day, for a total of over 2,400 articles so far. |
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