The US economy added 120,000 payroll jobs in November 2011. The unemployment rate fell to 8.6 percent, its lowest since March 2009. The report shows a US economy struggling to resist gobal weakness.
Stronger US Job Report Shows Economy Struggling to Resist Global Weakness
1. Data for the Classroom from Ed Dolan’s Econ Blog http://dolanecon.blogspot.com/ . US Employment Data: Stronger Report shows Job Market Struggling to Resist Global Weakness Posted Dec 2, 2011 Terms of Use: These slides are made available under Creative Commons License Attribution—Share Alike 3.0 . You are free to use these slides as a resource for your economics classes together with whatever textbook you are using. If you like the slides, you may also want to take a look at my textbook, Introduction to Economics , from BVT Publishers.