{"id":2933,"date":"2011-08-05T21:23:54","date_gmt":"2011-08-05T21:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/?p=2933"},"modified":"2011-08-05T21:23:54","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T21:23:54","slug":"unemployment-rate-dips-to-9-1-for-trucking-adds-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/unemployment-rate-dips-to-9-1-for-trucking-adds-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"Unemployment Rate Dips to 9.1% for Trucking Adds Jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unemployment, as defined by the International Labour Organization, occurs when people are without <a href=\"http:\/\/cdlapps.com\/\">jobs<\/a> and they have actively looked for work within the past four weeks. The unemployment rate is a measure of the prevalence of unemployment and it is calculated as a percentage by dividing the number of unemployed individuals by all individuals currently in the labour force.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. unemployment rate declined a tenth of a point in July to 9.1%, while the economy added 117,000 jobs to payrolls, the Labor Department said Friday.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightnowloads.com\/\">Trucking<\/a> added 1,300 workers, while the total transportation and warehousing sector grew by 1,100 <a href=\"http:\/\/cdlapps.com\/\">jobs<\/a>, Labor figures showed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was very pleasantly surprised by the top-line figure of 117,000, said Bob Costello, chief economist for American Trucking Associations. \u201cBased on other economic data, I thought the number would be closer to 75,000.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Costello noted that for-hire trucking had its smallest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightnowloads.com\/\">job<\/a> gain since January but said that number is often subject to significant revision later when the government reviews its initial reports.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/cdlapps.com\/\">Trucking<\/a> has been creating a decent amount of jobs this year, at a faster pace than the overall economy, so, if it does slow down a bit, that wouldn\u2019t be surprising or alarming,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Economists had forecast the unemployment rate would hold steady at June\u2019s level of 9.2%, Bloomberg reported.<\/p>\n<p>The payrolls gain followed a revised 46,000 increase in June that was more than originally reported.<\/p>\n<p> The payroll and unemployment figures are obtained by separate surveys, with payrolls from a survey of employers and the unemployment rate from a survey of households.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unemployment, as defined by the International Labour Organization, occurs when people are without jobs and they have actively looked for work within the past four weeks. The unemployment rate is a measure of the prevalence of unemployment and it is calculated as a percentage by dividing the number of unemployed individuals by all individuals currently [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2935,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,3],"tags":[46,41],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2933"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2933"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2942,"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2933\/revisions\/2942"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}