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The Employment Situation - March 2019
Transmission of material in this release is embargoed until USDL-18-0024. 8:30 (EST) Friday, January 5, 2018. Technical information: Household data: (202) 691-6378 Establishment data: (202) 691-6555 Media contact: (202) 691-5902 THE Employment Situation DECEMBER 2017. Total nonfarm payroll Employment increased by 148,000 in December, and the unemployment rate was unchanged at percent, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Employment gains occurred in health care, construction, and manufacturing. Chart 1. Unemployment rate, seasonally adjusted, Chart 2.
-2- In March, the number of long-term unemployed (those jobless for 27 weeks or more) was essentially unchanged at 1.3 million and accounted for 21.1 percent of the unemployed. (See table A-12.) The labor force participation rate, at 63.0 percent, was little changed over the month and has shown little movement on net over the past 12 months.
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