Payroll employment increases 216,000 in March; unemployment rate (8.8 percent) changes...

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics

THE EMPLOYMENT SITUATION -- MARCH 2011

Nonfarm payroll employment increased by 216,000 in March, and the unemployment
rate was little changed at 8.8 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
reported today. Job gains occurred in professional and business services, health
care, leisure and hospitality, and mining. Employment in manufacturing continued
to trend up.

Household Survey Data

The number of unemployed persons (13.5 million) and the unemployment rate (8.8
percent) changed little in March. The labor force also was little changed over
the month. Since November 2010, the jobless rate has declined by 1.0 percentage
point. (See table A-1.)

Among the major worker groups, the unemployment rates for adult men (8.6 percent),
adult women (7.7 percent), teenagers (24.5 percent), whites (7.9 percent), blacks
(15.5 percent), and Hispanics (11.3 percent) showed little change in March. The
jobless rate for Asians was 7.1 percent, not seasonally adjusted. (See tables A-1,
A-2, and A-3.)

The number of job losers and persons who completed temporary jobs, at 8.2 million,
was little changed in March but has fallen by 1.3 million since November 2010.
The number of long-term unemployed (those jobless for 27 weeks or more) was 6.1
million in March; their share of the unemployed increased from 43.9 to 45.5 percent
over the month. (See tables A-11 and A-12.)



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The tables back in the report show additional views of unemployment, and DUers have asked that I link to them too.

Economic News Releases

Employment Situation

These are the tables you're looking for, especially this one:

Table A-15. Alternative measures of labor underutilization

The large print giveth, and the fine print taketh away.

[Dawgs]

1. Better.

:)

[Javaman]

2. Is there a way to find out how many of these jobs were full time?

On edit:

Wait for the repukes to take credit for this when basically they have done nothing.

[Kber]

4. The last link may have the info you are looking for

The % of unemployed, underemployed, discouraged and part time employees who would rather have full time work ticked down a little from 15.9% to 15.7%.

I sound like a broken record, but it's still true to say it's too high, but headed in the right direction at least and has been for the past few months.

[nyy1998]

3. Wonderful news, I'm still looking but these numbers give me hope nt