WASHINGTON – Businesses hired a few more workers in July, but not nearly enough to bring down the unemployment rate, according to a Labor Department report released Friday.
The report showed that private employers added 71,000 jobs last month, while the jobless rate remained stuck at 9.5 percent.
These and other details can be found in the government%27s latest jobs report.
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WEAK HIRING ...
71,000: Private-sector jobs added in July
31,000: Private-sector jobs added in June
51,000: Private-sector jobs added in May
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... BARELY REDUCES THE UNEMPLOYMENT RATE
9.5 percent: Unemployment rate in July
9.5 percent: Unemployment rate in June
9.7 percent: Unemployment rate in May
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STILL LOOKING
44.9 percent: Proportion of unemployed out of work six months or longer in July, down from record high of 46 percent in May
34.2 weeks: Average length of unemployment in July, down from June%27s record of 35.2 weeks
6.6 million: Number of people jobless for six months or longer
1.3 million: Number unemployed for that long in December 2007, when the recession began
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UNDEREMPLOYED
8.5 million: Number of part-time workers who would have preferred full-time work
2.6 million: People without jobs who want to work but have stopped looking
16.5 percent: "Underemployment" rate in July, if you include the above two categories
17.4 percent: Underemployment rate in October 2009, the highest on record dating to 1994
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JULY UNEMPLOYMENT RATE BY GROUP
9.7 percent: Adult men
7.9 percent: Adult women
13.4 percent: Female heads of households
8.2 percent: Asians
8.6 percent: Whites
12.1 percent: Hispanics
15.6 percent: Blacks