Employment Up Again

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From the Congressional Joint Economic Committee:
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported today that 112,000 new payroll jobs were created in November, while the unemployment rate fell to 5.4 percent. November’s payroll jobs gains followed gains of 303,000 in October and 119,000 in September. Including the benchmark revision of the payroll survey that was released in October, 2.4 million new payroll jobs have been created since August 2003. Over 2 million new payroll jobs have been created thus far in 2004.