Palm Beach County's
jobless rate hit a rock - bottom 3.3 percent in April, state economists said Friday.
Youth unemployment also soared in this quarter, with 991,000 16 - 24 year olds now out of work, making
the jobless rate hit a record high of 21.3 % among this age group.
They also vowed to keep short - term interest rates low, at least until
the jobless rate hits 6.5 percent or inflation rises above 2.5 percent.
Canada Elderly wife, husband both die in bitter cold in Exeter, Ont., Toronto Star Canada's
jobless rate hits four - decade low as hiring surges, Globe and Mail
Not exact matches
«It isn't out of the realm of possibilities that we could see a
jobless rate as low as 3.5 percent, last seen in 1969 when the Beatles were still cranking out
hits,» he said.
In 2012, the
jobless rate for July
hit a peak of 7.8 percent, the highest for the month in the past two decades.
The state
jobless rate, which
hit 12.2 percent in late 2010, has plummeted to 5.5 percent — not much greater than the state's historic low of 4.7 percent set in 2000.
The
jobless rate just
hit a 10 - year low at 4.4 percent, and the economy added 211,000 jobs.