Friday, March 7, 2008

Quick look at unemployment

The economy unexpectedly shed 63k jobs in February.  Consensus had looked for a gain of 25k.  Almost as surprising was the drop in the unemployment rate to 4.8% from 4.9% in January as people left the labor force as they gave up on finding a job.  Workweek held steady at 33.7 hours.

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