Sentences with phrase «unemployment rate unchanged»

We expect household job growth will be sufficient to leave the unemployment rate unchanged at 4.3 %, but due to particularly unfavorable calendar effects, we estimate a 0.1 % monthly rise in average hourly earnings (+2.5 % year - over-year).

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Even though the U.S. unemployment rate is at its lowest level since early 2008, America's central bank opted to leave its policy rate unchanged last week.

The nation added 217,000 jobs in May to reach the milestone, though the unemployment rate remained unchanged last month at 6.3 % and U.S. employment still needs to catch up with the growth of the population and labor force that has occurred since the recession began.

The unemployment rate in Western Australia was unchanged at 6.1 per cent in September, however it disguised a fall in employment as the number of people working fell by over 9,000 during the month.

They were also most likely emboldened by the unemployment rate, which sat unchanged at 4.1 %, the lowest since December 2000.

The household survey, favored by some small business groups because it includes self - employed individuals, was unchanged in July with the unemployment rate holding steady at 5 %.

Prior week's reading was revised to 218,000 from 215,000, erasing what was originally reported as a 45 - year low Unemployment rate among people eligible for benefits was unchanged at 1.3 percent Colorado and Maine had estimated claims last week, according to the Labor Department

ADP says 192,000 private jobs were added to payrolls in January but unemployment claims jumped and the unemployment rate remained unchanged.

In the larger 28 - member European Union, the unemployment rate stood at 7.1 %, also remaining unchanged from February.

The unemployment rate was unchanged at 4.9 %, remaining at its lowest level since 2008, while the labor force participation rate continued to rebound, rising slightly to 62.9 % as the strong labor market encouraged more people to start, or resume, looking for jobs.

Notwithstanding this, and consistent with trend growth in employment, the unemployment rate has been largely unchanged over the past year, averaging 6.1 per cent in the three months to July.

Compared with the Fed's September forecast, «real GDP growth is a little stronger, the unemployment rate is a bit lower, and inflation is essentially unchanged,» according to an FOMC statement.

With the province's economy growing but unemployment rates remaining unchanged, he faces the challenge of proving the government's job creation plan is working as the provincial economy recovers from the sharp decline of international oil prices.

Employment has been broadly unchanged over this period, although with the participation rate having fallen, the unemployment rate has declined to around 5 per cent from its record high of 5 1/2 per cent early in 2003.

Employment has been broadly unchanged over the past year, having fallen for much of the past six years, with the unemployment rate declining to 5.1 per cent by September — its lowest level in two years.

In Sweden, where fathers could be off work on full pay for an eye - watering 40 weeks, the rate of unemployment was unchanged in January at 3.5 %, compared to 7.5 % in the UK.

New York State's unemployment rate remained unchanged in August, hovering at 9.1 percent — one point above the national average.

was finally released, the pound jumped even higher as a knee - jerk reaction because the report looked good on the surface, with the jobless rate for the three months to September unchanged at a record low 4.3 % and the number of people who claimed unemployment benefits increasing only by 1.1 K in October, which is less than the expected 2.9 K increase.

And when the U.K.'s latest jobs report was finally released, the pound jumped even higher as a knee - jerk reaction because the report looked good on the surface, with the jobless rate for the three months to September unchanged at a record low 4.3 % and the number of people who claimed unemployment benefits increasing only by 1.1 K in October, which is less than the expected 2.9 K increase.

The Labor Department also reported that the unemployment rate ticked up to 7.9 percent and that average hourly wages were unchanged.»

Pre-report estimates were for the unemployment rate to remain unchanged at 10.2 percent.

Economists say the Fed will leave rates unchanged until unemployment falls.

Over the following decade, the region's graduation rates increased, income levels rose, poverty fell, and the unemployment rate remained unchanged despite a 91 per cent reduction in logging on public lands.

However, despite the fact that jobs were added to the economy, the unemployment rate remained unchanged at 9.6 percent in October — and has been essentially unchanged since May 2010 — while the number of unemployed persons was also little changed at 14.8 million during the month.

In July, the national unemployment rate remained unchanged from the month prior, at 9.5 percent.

Today's 5.4 percent unemployment rate is virtually unchanged from a decade ago, yet the economy has grown through that period at a 3 percent to 4 percent pace.

According to the Employment Situation for February 2018, reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 313,000 in February and the unemployment rate was unchanged at 4.1 %.

The unemployment rate has remained unchanged at 4.9 percent.

According to the Employment Situation for November 2017 reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 228,000 in November and the unemployment rate was unchanged at 4.1 %.

According to the Employment Situation for December 2017 reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 148,000 in December and the unemployment rate was unchanged at 4.1 % for the third consecutive month.

The unemployment rate was unchanged only because the labor force shrank faster than the number of employed persons.