Rombel on Business report on the September jobs data

Rombel on Business report on the September jobs data

10/5/2012 3:39:00 PM by Adam Rombel

On Oct. 5, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that U.S. employers added 114,000 jobs in September, on par with economists’ expectations. The shocker was that the unemployment rate fell to 7.8 percent in September from 8.1 percent in August. Forecasters had been expecting the rate to rise to 8.2 percent.

In this video report, I look deeper behind the numbers of the September employment report.

That includes broader measures of unemployment, labor-force participation rates, wage growth, and revisions to the August and July jobs reports.

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