October employment report.

The October employment data has reignited fear that things are going to get vey bad. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), nonfarm payroll employment fell by 240,000 in October. BLS also report that job losses over the last 3 months totaled 651,000. In October, the unemployment rate rose from 6.1 to 6.5 percent, and the number of unemployed persons increased to 10.1 million.
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"Today’s jobs report offers more evidence that the economy is in the midst of a downturn that will not only be deeper than the recessions that ended in 1991 and 2001, but may approach, or perhaps surpass, the severity of the long recession that ended in 1982."