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Joint Economic Committee (JEC)
Senator Sam Brownback
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January Employment and
Unemployment: The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released a report
today on employment and unemployment for February (BLS pdf
summary available at title="http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/empsit.pdf">http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/empsit.pdf
).
Highlights of
the report:
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Non-farm payroll employment increased by 97,000
new jobs in February, following increases of 226,000 in December and 146,000 in
January.
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The unemployment rate edged down to 4.5% in
February, from 4.6% in January.
Jeffrey
Wrase
Chief Economist, Senate Republicans
Joint Economic
Committee
H-805
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