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The Employment Situation, April

Economic TrendsPublished 8 May 2008
Yoonsoo Lee, Beth Mowry
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Abstract

The unemployment rate jumped from 8.5 percent to 8.9 percent in April, largely due to a labor force increase of 683,000 people, which pushed up the participation rate 0.3 percentage point to 65.8 percent.

Keywords

Economics, Econometrics and Finance