Monday, November 22, 2010

Adding Jobs, All Over the Country

You may have heard last week that New Jersey's jobless rate fell in October, dropping 0.2 percentage points to 9.2 percent. The growth was in the right area, with the private sector adding 4,800 jobs. The public sector dropped 2,200 jobs, 1,800 of them casualties of the end of the census.

Those kinds of numbers were repeated around the country. In the four largest states in the nation, we saw the following figures for October:

California added 39,000 jobs
Texas added 47,900 jobs
New York added 40,500 jobs
Florida added 6,900

October was the first month since May in which all four of those states added jobs.

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