The unemployment rate was 4.1% in February, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That’s in contrast to the 4% economists surveyed by Factset expected to see last month. About 7.1 million ...

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The labor market picked up 151,000 jobs in February, a solid pace, despite a massive layoff among federal workers that began to show up in the data. The unemployment rate ticked up to 4.1 percent ...

Updated on March 7 with data from the latest jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The unemployment rate went up slightly at 4.1% in February — a 0.1 percentage point increase from ...

The unemployment rate only edged up by a tenth of a point, but other data from the household survey was much weaker. The labor force shrank by 385,000, and employment fell by 588,000. As regular ...

South Africa’s unemployment ... The jobless rate declined to 31.9% in the three months through December, compared with 32.1% in the previous quarter, according to data released by Statistics ...

Investing.com - The unemployment rate in Brazil fell unexpectedly last month, official data showed on Wednesday.In a report, Instituto Brasiliero de Geografia e Estatistica said that Brazilian ...

"Overwhelmingly, this group will be employed next month, which will put downward pressure on the unemployment rate ... There is very little in the data that suggest the labour market is slackening ...

Wages have risen while unemployment unexpectedly saw ... Traders were pricing in a slim chance of an interest rate cut, of just 28%, before the data was released - but the likelihood fell to ...

(Stacker) - The first jobs report under the new Trump administration showed a stable job market, with the unemployment rate ticking down from 4.1% to 4% in January, the lowest since last May ...

This story features data reporting by Karim Noorani, writing by Ben Popken, and is part of a series utilizing data automation across 50 states.