CES News Releases

Employment Situation

April 03, 2009
Nonfarm payroll employment continued to decline sharply in March (-663,000), and the unemployment rate rose from 8.1 to 8.5 percent. Payroll employment has decreased by 3.3 million over the past 5 months. In March, job losses were large and widespread across the major industry sectors. More...
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Current CES Economic News Releases

  • Employment Situation Summary (HTML) (PDF)
  • Commissioner's Statement on the Employment Situation (HTML) (PDF)
  • Current Employment Statistics Highlights, Monthly -- a package of charts and analysis featuring the latest industry employment numbers (PDF)
  • Real Earnings (HTML) (PDF)
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