US Unemployment rate rises 9.6% in August

Category Business, U.S. | Friday, September 3rd, 2010

The nation’s jobless rate worsened slightly last month, edging up to 9.6 percent from 9.5 percent in July, the government said Friday in a report that had little for workers to cheer about this Labor Day weekend.

The US economy lost 54,000 net jobs in Aug. as another 114,000 temporary census workers were dismissed from the federal government’s payrolls. Aside from the staffing changes at the Census Bureau, which has been trimming jobs added earlier in the year for the decennial population count, private-sector employers added a modest 67,000 jobs over the month.

The nation’s manufacturers, which had been growing all year and leading the weak jobs recovery, fell back in August, cutting 27,000 from their payrolls. Budget-strapped state governments shed another 14,000 jobs.

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