Sunday, March 6, 2011

Unemployment fell for the third straight month the U.S.

The hirings were significantly accelerated in the United States in February, where the unemployment rate fell for the third consecutive month to 8.9%, according to the official report on employment on Friday March 4 Washington. The figure for February is a little better than the anticipated analysts, who expected 185,000 net hires, according to their median forecast.

The unemployment rate fell in January to 9% for the first time since April 2009, with a decline of 0.8 points over two months, unequaled since 1958. The U.S. economy created 192,000 more jobs than it destroyed the last month, seasonally adjusted data, said the labor department. The net balance of new hires has tripled from January, the month for which the department has revised its figures upwards of 75% to 63,000 net new jobs.

The public sector has shed jobs (30,000) for the fourth straight month, the private sector has created 222,000 net jobs in February. It is his greatest contribution to the labor market since April 2010. In the tertiary sector, which occupies about 85% of the workforce employed, the net hiring (122 000) has been multiplied by more than four.

However, it is below its level in December (148,000). The ministry said that the resumption of U.S. employment, which began in February 2010, is still far from complete. The country has found that 1.3 million jobs over the approximately 8.7 million lost during the crisis.

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