Jobs for the month and year-over-year (0.8 percent and 0.6 percent, Nonresidential specialty trade contractors added Probably as a result of federal stimulus, base realignment and Gulf Coast Year-over-year percentage gain, 3.3 percent (and 0.5 percent for the month), (BLS does not publish seasonallyĮmployment categories, heavy and civil engineering construction had the largest Rate in construction was 21.8 percent, not seasonally adjusted, downįrom 27.1 percent in February 2010 but still the highest of any industry and Year-over-year decrease since June 2007, suggesting the slump is close to In February 2010 and 2.2 million (29 percent) lower than in the peak month,Įmployment dropped from the same month a year earlier for theĤ7th consecutive month but the 0.4 percent decline was the smallest Nearly four years, but much of the increase may have represented catch-up fromĪ weather-exacerbated drop of 22,000 jobs (initially estimated as 32,000) in Construction employment rose by 33,000 (0.6 percent), the largest gain in Nonfarm payroll employment increased by 192,000 in January, seasonally adjusted, and the unemployment rate dipped 0.1 percentage point to 8.9 percent (9.5 percent, not seasonallyĪdjusted), the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported on March 4. Of the increase may have represented catch-up from a weather-exacerbated drop Rose by 33,000, the largest gain in nearly four years, but much
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