ABCNEWS: Just 11,000 Jobs Lost in November; Unemployment Rate Falls to 10 Percent [8:37 a.m. ET]
UPDATE: From the JEC:
November Employment and Unemployment: The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released a report today on employment and unemployment for November (pdf summary available at http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/empsit.pdf). Highlights of the report:
Unemployment Rate
· The unemployment rate edged down to 10.0% in November, from 10.2% in October.
· The unemployment rate was 4.9% at the start of the recession in December, 2007.
· There were 15.4 million unemployed persons in November. The number of unemployed persons has risen by 7.9 million since the start of the recession.





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