Thumbs Up: Private Sector employment continued to trend up in August

Dan

The latest Employment Situation news release
(http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/empsit.pdf)
was issued today by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Highlights are below.
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Nonfarm payroll employment changed little (-54,000) in August, and the
unemployment rate was about unchanged at 9.6 percent. Government employment fell, reflecting a decrease of 114,000 temporary jobs associated with the decennial census. Private-sector payroll employment continued to trend up modestly (+67,000).

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