Workforce Investment Area 5

September 2009:
Over the Month:
• Total nonfarm
payroll employment up 100
• Goods-producing down 100
• Service-providing sector up 100
• Total unemployment down 500
• Unemployment rate down seven-tenths of a percentage
point to 9.8 percent
Over the Year
• Total nonfarm payroll employment down 1,800
• Goods-producing sector down 800
• Service-providing sector down 1,000
• Total unemployment up 3,700
• Unemployment rate up five and three-tenths
percentage points from 4.5 percent