Sentences with phrase «jobless rate hits»

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

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.

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.

Palm Beach County's jobless rate hit a rock - bottom 3.3 percent in April, state economists said Friday.

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.