Jobless Rate Increases in U.S.; Palatine's Unemployment Rate Also Rises
The unemployment rate is currently at 7.9 percent in the U.S. and has been relatively unchanged since September.
Unemployment rates in the United States increased slightly in January as economic growth remains slow. Employees added 157,000 jobs last month throughout the United States. The nation's current jobless rate of 7.9 percent—which is up .1 percent from December—has remained relatively unchanged since September, according to United States Labor Department numbers released Friday. And while retail trade, construction, health care, and wholesale trade employees added jobs over the month, employment numbers for transportation and warehousing employees decreased, according to the Labor Department report. There is currently 12.3 million U.S. residents who are unemployed and even with the addition of 181,000 new jobs in 2012, the economy has seen …
