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Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor---------------------- Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
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THE EMPLOYMENT SITUATION -- APRIL 2011 [6 May 2011]

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm

or

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/empsit.pdf

[full-text, 38 pages]

and

Supplemental Files Table of Contents

http://www.bls.gov/web/empsit.supp.toc.htm

Nonfarm payroll employment rose by 244,000 in April, and the unemployment rate

edged up to 9.0 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today.

Job gains occurred in several service-providing industries, manufacturing,

and mining.

Household Survey Data

The number of unemployed persons, at 13.7 million, changed little in

April. The unemployment rate edged up from 8.8 to 9.0 percent over the

month but was 0.8 percentage point lower than in November. The labor

force also was little changed in April. (See table A-1.)

Among the major worker groups, the unemployment rates for adult men

(8.8 percent), adult women (7.9 percent), teenagers (24.9 percent),

whites (8.0 percent), blacks (16.1 percent), and Hispanics (11.8 percent)

showed little change in April. The jobless rate for Asians was 6.4 percent,

not seasonally adjusted. (See tables A-1, A-2, and A-3.)

The number of persons unemployed for less than 5 weeks increased by

242,000 in April. The number of long-term unemployed (those jobless for

27 weeks and over) declined by 283,000 to 5.8 million; their share of

unemployment declined to 43.4 percent. (See table A-12.)

The civilian labor force participation rate was 64.2 percent for the

fourth consecutive month. The employment-population ratio, at 58.4 percent,

changed little in April. (See table A-1.)

The number of persons employed part time for economic reasons

(sometimes referred to as involuntary part-time workers) was little

changed over the month, at 8.6 million. These individuals were working

part time because their hours had been cut back or because they were

unable to find a full-time job. (See table A-8.)

In April, 2.5 million persons were marginally attached to the labor force,

about the same as a year earlier. (These data are not seasonally adjusted.)

These individuals were not in the labor force, wanted and were available

for work, and had looked for a job sometime in the prior 12 months. They

were not counted as unemployed because they had not searched for work in

the 4 weeks preceding the survey. (See table A-16.)

Among the marginally attached, there were 989,000 discouraged workers in

April, a decline of 208,000 from a year earlier. (These data are not

seasonally adjusted.) Discouraged workers are persons not currently

looking for work because they believe no jobs are available for them.

The remaining 1.5 million persons marginally attached to the labor force

in April had not searched for work in the 4 weeks preceding the survey

for reasons such as school attendance or family responsibilities.

(See table A-16.)

AND MUCH MORE...including TABLES....

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