Sentences with phrase «headline unemployment figures»

The headline unemployment figures are starting to move in the right direction.

And we shouldn't allow welcome falls in headline unemployment figures to conceal deeper problems in our labour market.

Not exact matches

The November Payrolls was optically strong with headline job growth at 178,000 vs. 180,000 consensus (two month net revision at -2,000), the U3 unemployment rate declined to 4.6 % vs. 4.9 % expectations, and the U6 figure fell to 9.3 % vs. 9.5 % prior.

This trend of rising unemployment continued through the last quarter of 2011 and the beginning of 2012, but there were increasing signs of stabilisation in the labour market and by March 2012, although unemployment showed a rise of 28,000 compared to the previous quarter, this was 5,000 below the headline figure of the previous month.

«Behind the headline figures long - term unemployment actually came down in the quarterly figures, and very importantly the number of new jobs created in the private sector outstripped the number of jobs lost in the public sector,» Mr Clegg told MPs.

A Labour Party spokesperson said: «Nobody is disputing the headline figure but p18 of the ONS statistics summary shows that if you compare today's ILO figures for February - April 2010 with those for January - March 2010 unemployment is down on last month.»

But the way that employment was then measured bears little resemblance to the monthly figures trumpeted in headlines now, said Keyssar, author of «Out of Work: The First Century of Unemployment in Massachusetts.».