BREAKING NEWS! ANOTHER 93,000 JOBS LOST IN AUGUST; Thank you Mr. Bush you lying criminal POS!
[ed: Also last months jobs lost revised to -49K from -44K; jobs continue to be slashed thanks to POS lying corporate criminal Bush.]
Payrolls slashed again
Unemployment falls, even as employers cut 93,000 workers from payrolls, surprising analysts.
money.cnn.com
September 5, 2003: 8:33 AM EDT
NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - The U.S. unemployment rate slipped to 6.1 percent in August, despite the fact that employers cut thousands more workers from their payrolls, the government said Friday.
The jobless rate was 6.2 percent in July, the Labor Department said. Economists, on average, expected the rate to stay at 6.2 percent, according to a Reuters poll.
Non-farm payrolls fell by 93,000 jobs, the report said, after losing a revised 49,000 jobs in July. Economists, on average, expected payrolls to grow by 12,000 jobs, according to Reuters. |
