vendredi 3 avril 2015

The US Employment Situation - March 2015

Total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 126,000 in March, and the unemployment

rate was unchanged at 5.5 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today.

Employment continued to trend up in professional and business services, health care,

and retail trade, while mining lost jobs.



Household Survey Data



In March, the unemployment rate held at 5.5 percent, and the number of unemployed

persons was little changed at 8.6 million. Over the year, the unemployment rate and

the number of unemployed persons were down by 1.1 percentage points and 1.8 million,

respectively. (See table A-1.)



Among the major worker groups, the unemployment rates for adult men (5.1 percent),

adult women (4.9 percent), teenagers (17.5 percent), whites (4.7 percent), blacks

(10.1 percent), Asians (3.2 percent), and Hispanics (6.8 percent) showed little or

no change in March. (See tables A-1, A-2, and A-3.)



Among the unemployed, the number of new entrants decreased by 157,000 in March and is

down by 342,000 over the year. Unemployed new entrants are those who never previously

worked. (See table A-11.)

The US Employment Situation - March 2015

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