On Friday December 8th the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released their monthly employment survey results for the month of November.
According to the BLS the Unemployment for November is virtually unchanged from October to November on both an Unadjusted and Seasonally Adjusted basis. Seasonally Adjusted U-3 was 4.1% for both months while Unadjusted U-3 was 3.9% for both months. Unadjusted U-6 unemployment which is a broader measure of Unemployment rose slightly from 7.6% in October to 7.7% in November. This is still significantly better than a year ago when in November 2016 Unadjusted U-6 was 9%.
Unemployment
Over the last month, the actual number of people working has increased by 532,000 and the civilian non-institutional population (a fairly narrow measurement of population) has increased by a very low 183,000.
This means that not only has the increase in jobs kept up with the increase in the population but it was actually almost 3 times greater than the population growth! And since only about half of the population is working, job growth has far exceeded the level needed to keep things on a steady keel. See: Current Unemployment Rate Chart for more info.
Employment
Employment was 147,975,000 in October (148,006,000 when the numbers were originally released in November) and the current numbers for employment are 148,507,000 in November for a net gain of 501,000 over the original October numbers or 532,000 increase over the new October numbers.
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