The latest Employment Situation news release

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The latest Employment Situation news release
(http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/empsit.pdf)
was issued today by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Highlights are below.
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Nonfarm payroll employment fell by 240,000 in October. Job
losses over the last 3 months totaled 651,000. In October,
the unemployment rate rose from 6.1 to 6.5 percent, and the
number of unemployed persons increased to 10.1 million.

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