The job machine seems distributed in the United States. Some 248,000 jobs were created in September and the unemployment rate down 0.2 percentage points to fall below the symbolic threshold of 6% to 5.9%. according to data released Friday by the Labor Department. So the unemployment rate to its lowest since July 2008, at the beginning of the financial crisis.
The population is down
However, if the number of unemployed fell by 329,000 to 9,300,000, the long-term unemployed (without job for more than six months) remain numerous, representing 31.9% of the unemployed. Another downside to be made to improve this statistic, participation in the labor market, with those employed and those actively seeking work, has slightly decreased to 62.7% against 62.8%, this which helped a bit to drag the unemployment rate.
The vigorous job creation
The real pleasant surprise, however, lies in job creation. It is in fact much higher than the 210,000 required by the analysts and 180,000 reported in August, showing that the low last month was just a blip. Especially since the numbers of the last summer months were revised up from 38,000 to 180,000.
The sectors with the most jobs created in September were business services (81,000), health services (23,000) and retail trade (35,000). Job gains in the latter sector are mainly due to return to work many employees who had observed a strike in August in a large supermarket chain in the northeast of the country.
Year over year, the American economy has created an average of 213,000 jobs per month, said Erica Groshen, Commissioner Bureau of Labour Statistics.
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