Employment Situation Summary - November 2010

"The unemployment rate edged up to 9.8 percent in November, and nonfarm payroll employment was little changed (+39,000), the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Temporary help services and health care continued to add jobs over the month, while employment fell in retail trade. Employment in most major industries changed little in November." - Bureau of Labor Statistics

Source of the details: http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm

"Total nonfarm payroll employment changed little in November (+39,000). Job gains continued in temporary help services and in health care, while employment fell in retail trade. Since December 2009, total payroll employment has increased by an average of 86,000 per month."

"Within professional and business services, employment in temporary help services continued to increase in November (+40,000) and has risen by 494,000 since September 2009."

"Health care continued to add jobs over the month, with a gain of 19,000. Much of
the increase occurred in hospitals (+8,000)."

"Retail trade employment fell by 28,000 in November. Job losses occurred in department stores (-9,000) and in furniture and home furnishings stores (-5,000)."

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