DUMMY
TYPE The number of unemployed persons increased by 558,000, to 15.7
million, during the month, the U.S. Bureau of Labour Statistics said
Friday.
Since
December 2007, the number of unemployed persons has risen by 8.2 million,
and the unemployment rate has grown by 5.3 percentage points. It's also
the 22nd consecutive month that the U.S. economy has lost jobs.