Friday, October 19, 2007

Building Holds Jobless Rate Down

From the Tennessean:
"A surge in construction jobs gave Tennessee workers a lift, pushing the state's unemployment rate down for the month of September.... David Penn, director of the Business and Economic Research Center at Middle Tennessee State University, said the September unemployment numbers were puzzling given that non-farm employment has been growing by less than 1 percent over the last five months."