Biz: Unemployment stays put despite genuinely solid job growth
- 151,000 the increase in hiring in October – mostly on the back of private sector jobs, which is really good
- 9.6% the current unemployment rate, which didn’t improve even though jobs numbers were strong source
- » Far better than predicted: Economists were expecting a hiring increase of around 60,000 in October, which was more than doubled. So hey, that’s a positive!