US jobs market shows surprise strength | Bangkok Post: news

News > World

US jobs market shows surprise strength

The US jobs market muddled along in January, with slower job growth and an uptick in unemployment, but underlying momentum was surprisingly stronger, official data showed Friday.

People walk outside of the New York Stock Exchange on April 9, 2012 in New York City. The US jobs market muddled along in January, with slower job growth and an uptick in unemployment, but underlying momentum was surprisingly stronger, official data showed Friday.

Employers added 157,000 jobs, down from December's upwardly revised 196,000, the Labor Department said.

This article is older than 60 days, which we reserve for our premium members only.You can subscribe to our premium member subscription, here.

Most Viewed

  • Karun-Tankhun confrontation (video)

    A video clip of former Pheu Thai MP Karun Hosakul exchanging heated words with his former election rival Tankhun Jitt-itsara of the opposition Democrat Party has gone viral.

Forum

image

Your comments

  • faranginkorat

    Post : 227

    Send message

    Discussion 2 : 01 Feb 2013 at 13.122

    About 150,000 jobs per month are required to keep unemployment constant.

  • rubyridge

    ChinaPost : 113

    Send message

    Discussion 1 : 01 Feb 2013 at 11.491

    Just to clarify to the rest of the world, this is not the real jobless rate only the number of jobless claims. When your welfare payments expire you are no longer part of the statistics even though you are still not working
    The real total is much higher

Reply

Sign in once and access every part of the website at your convenience!

Please log in to our Bangkokpost.com community to post your comment.
You can sign in to the community by clicking here.

If you are not part of the community yet, please sign up here. By being part of this community you will get all these privileges.