November 06, 2006 (The Editor’s Desk is updated each business day.)
Unemployment rate in October 2006
The number of unemployed persons (6.7 million) edged down in October, and the unemployment rate declined to 4.4 percent.
[Chart data—TXT]
A year earlier, the number of unemployed persons was 7.4 million and the jobless rate was 4.9 percent.
Unemployment rates for most major worker groups—adult men, teenagers, whites, and blacks—showed little or no change over the month. The jobless rates for adult women and Hispanics fell in October.
These data are from the Current Population Survey and are seasonally adjusted. More information can be found in
"The Employment Situation: October
2006" (PDF) (TXT),
news release USDL 06-1903.
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