What was the unemployment rate for NYC at the end of September, according to the dept of labor?
The unemployment rate in New York City has been above 10 percent for months, but it’s thought to be even worse within the city’s 343 public housing developments. WNYC’s Cindy Rodriguez reports. REPORTER: Recently, the Community Service Society, an advocacy group, gave testimony at a city council hearing that put the public housing unemployment rate at 17 percent and the group said that number was obtained using census figures from 2005, when the economy was booming. City councilwoman Letitia James says at the Ingersoll Houses in Brooklyn, more than half the residents are unemployed. She helped organize a job fair there and says recent problems with gun violence need to be addressed with economic development and not solely more policing: JAMES:The residents of public housing need services, they need jobs, they need to be connected to all the development that is literally happening in their backyard and they have not been. REPORTER: The job fair is Thursday and James says about 160 peopl
Economic News Releases Employment Situation November 06, 2009 In October, the unemployment rate rose to 10.2 percent, the highest since April 1983, and nonfarm payroll employment continued to decline (-190,000). The largest job losses over the month were in construction, manufacturing, and retail trade. Full text: (HTML) (PDF) Productivity and Costs November 05, 2009 Productivity increased 9.5 percent in the nonfarm business sector during the third quarter of 2009 as unit labor costs fell 5.2 percent (seasonally adjusted annual rates). In manufacturing, productivity increased 13.6 percent while unit labor costs fell 7.1 percent. Full text: (HTML) (PDF) The Editor’s Desk Nonfarm business labor productivity up 9.5 percent in third quarter 2009 November 06, 2009 Nonfarm business sector labor productivity increased at a 9.5-percent annual rate during the third quarter of 2009, the largest gain in productivity since the third quarter of 2003, when it rose 9.7 percent. Full Text » Sources: <
New York City’s unemployment rate rose to 10.3 percent in September as summer jobs programs ended and businesses that usually add staff in the fall held off on hiring, the state’s Department of Labor reported on Thursday. Over all, the employment picture was “markedly weaker” than it had been in August, when the city’s unemployment rate was 10.2 percent, said James Brown, an analyst for the Labor Department. (The department revised the August rate, which had been reported as 10.3 percent.) Sources: http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.
