WOOHOO! 7.8% Unemployment, 114k new jobs.

[berni_mccoy]

Just released

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm

The unemployment rate decreased to 7.8 percent in September, and total nonfarm
payroll employment rose by 114,000, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported
today. Employment increased in health care and in transportation and warehousing
but changed little in most other major industries.

Household Survey Data

The unemployment rate declined by 0.3 percentage point to 7.8 percent in September.
For the first 8 months of the year, the rate held within a narrow range of 8.1
and 8.3 percent. The number of unemployed persons, at 12.1 million, decreased by
456,000 in September.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

1. Mittens probably crying in his cereal