Thursday, April 09, 2009

Jobs overboard. It's begun.

Today's employment figures are very different to last month's.

Here is the "employed persons" graph:


The unemployment rate has jumped from 5.2 to 5.7 per cent.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Looks like your crowing last month that nobody had lost their jobs was bit premature.

Peter Martin said...

There had indeed been no net job losses (although many full-time jobs had been turned part-time).

The two graphs are indeed very different.