Workforce Investment Area 1

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September 2009

Over the Month

•    Total nonfarm payroll employment up 100
•    Goods-producing sector down 100
•    Service-providing sector up 100
•    Total unemployment down 700
•    Unemployment rate down five-tenths of a  percentage points to 8.5 percent

Over the Year

•    Total nonfarm payroll employment down 2,300
•    Goods-producing sector down 1,300
•    Service-providing sector down 1,100
•    Total unemployment up 6,400
•    Unemployment rate up four and eight-tenths percentage points from 3.7 percent