January 14, 2003 (The Editor’s Desk is updated each business day.)
Unemployment rate unchanged in December
The unemployment rate remained at 6.0 percent in December, and the number of unemployed persons was essentially flat, at 8.6 million. Both measures had increased in November.
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The unemployment rate for adult women rose in December to 5.3 percent. The jobless rates for other major worker groups—adult men (5.6 percent), teenagers (16.1 percent), whites (5.1 percent), blacks (11.5 percent), and Hispanics (7.9 percent)—were little changed over the month.
These data are from the Current Population
Survey. Data in this article are seasonally adjusted. For more information, see
"The Employment Situation: December
2002" (PDF) (TXT),
news release USDL 03-05.
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