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Total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 148,000 in September, and the unemployment rate
was little changed at 7.2 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. The unemployment rate, at 7.2 percent. In September, the number of long-term unemployed (those jobless for 27 weeks or more) was little changed at 4.1 million.
Among the major worker groups, the unemployment rates for
adult men (7.1 percent),
adult women (6.2 percent),
teenagers (21.4 percent),
whites (6.3 percent),
blacks (12.9 percent),
Asians was 5.3 percent
Hispanics (9.0 percent) showed little or no change in September.
Both the civilian labor force participation rate, at 63.2 percent, and the employment-
population ratio at 58.6 percent, were unchanged in September.
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