US payroll jobs grew by 200,000 in December and the unemployment rate fell to its lowest level since February 2009, leading off an election season that will focus on jobs, jobs, jobs!
US Employment Data: Strong Jobs Report Leads Off the Election Season
1. Data for the Classroom from Ed Dolan’s Econ Blog http://dolanecon.blogspot.com/ . US Employment Data: Strong Jobs Report Kicks off Election Season Posted Jan. 6, 2012 Terms of Use: These slides are made available under Creative Commons License Attribution—Share Alike 3.0 . You are free to use these slides as a resource for your economics classes together with whatever textbook you are using. If you like the slides, you may also want to take a look at my textbook, Introduction to Economics , from BVT Publishers.