September_2000_Employment_Situation

September 2000 Employment Situation September 2000 Employment Situation On Friday October 6, 2000 the Employment Situation for September, 2000 was released. The statement showed many positive things for our economy and employment status. Total (nonfarm) employment rose by 252,000 in September. The return of striking communications workers to their jobs caused this figure to be high. Also affecting this figure was the loss of 27,000 temporary Census 2000 jobs. After the adjustment for these unusual circumstances, the increase in employment was brought to about 204,000. This increase wasn’t as high as July’s (employment increasing 241,000) but was significantly higher than last months, (august) which only rose by 160,000. Job gains were seen in most industries. The service industry saw very strong gains, by nearly doubling its average growth for the previous 12 months. However, the widespread losses in manufacturing caused the overall employment situation to subside. Unemployment rates fell in almost every working category. The most dramatic decreases were 1% in Black, and 1.6% in teenage unemployment rates. Teenage unemployment decrease in September was important, after seeing an increase in unemployment rates in August. The amount of unemployed Americans dropped from 5.5 million people employment, unemployment, september, wages, jobs, increase, situation, rates, months, manufacturing, average, workers, since, rose, industry, hourly, economy, 2000, strong, saw, people, last, growth, been, august, working, unemployed, three, teenage, shows, season, positive, overall, loss, july