The Hispanic unemployment rate dipped slightly from the 13.0% recorded in August, but remained a sobering 12.7% last month.

-- from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics:

Nonfarm payroll employment continued to decline in September (-263,000), and the unemployment rate (9.8 percent) continued to trend up, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. The largest job losses were in construction, manufacturing, retail trade, and government.

Household Survey Data

Since the start of the recession in December 2007, the number of unemployed persons has increased by 7.6 million to 15.1 million, and the unemployment rate has doubled to 9.8 percent.

Unemployment rates for the major worker groups—adult men (10.3 percent), adult women (7.8 percent), teenagers (25.9 percent), whites (9.0 percent), blacks (15.4 percent), and Hispanics (12.7 percent)—showed little change in September. The unemployment rate for Asians was 7.4 percent, not
seasonally adjusted. The rates for all major worker groups are much higher than at the start of the recession.

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