December 6, 1999 (The Editor’s Desk is updated each business day.)
Unemployment in November
The number of unemployed persons, 5.7 million,
was essentially unchanged in November, and the unemployment rate held at
4.1 percent (seasonally adjusted).
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The jobless rate has been below 4.3 percent since August. Unemployment
rates for the major demographic groups—adult men (3.3 percent), adult
women (3.6 percent), teenagers (14.1 percent), whites (3.5 percent),
blacks (8.1 percent), and Hispanics (6.0 percent)—showed little or no
change over the month.
Also, about 1.1 million persons (not seasonally adjusted) were
marginally attached to the labor force in November. These were people who
wanted and were available to work and had looked for a job sometime in the
prior 12 months but were not counted as unemployed because they had not
searched for work in the 4 weeks preceding the survey.
These data are a product of the Current
Population Survey. Find out more in "The
Employment Situation: November 1999," news release USDL 99-346.
Of interest
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