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October 10, 2011

National Unemployment Rate Holds With More Than 14 Million Out of Work 
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The nation's official unemployment rate held steady at 9.1 percent in
September as more than 14 million Americans remained out of work. In
September, 103,000 jobs were created, but economists say employers need
to create about 200,000 jobs a month for a year to bring the jobless
rate down by a percentage point. They need to add about 125,000 jobs a
month merely to keep up with growth of the workforce population.
Meanwhile, the National Women's Law Center says the recent job reports
have been particularly bad for women due to the large job cuts at
federal, state and local government agencies. Of the 103,000 jobs
created last month only 4,000 went to women. Since June 2009, men have
gained over 1.1 million jobs, while women have actually lost 264,000
jobs. On Saturday President Obama used his weekly address to push for
passage of his jobs bill.

President Barack Obama: “Right now, hundreds of thousands of teachers
and firefighters and police officers have been laid off because of state
budget cuts. This jobs bill will put a lot of these men and women back
to work. Right now, there are millions of laid-off construction workers
who could be repairing our bridges and roads and modernizing our
schools. Why wouldn't we want to put these men and women to work
rebuilding America?”



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