| | | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2013 March 21 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | Illinois added 12,400 jobs in February, continuing a three-year pattern of job growth that has intensified in the past seven months. Job growth has encouraged more people to look for work, especially those who gave up during the recession. Their re-entry into the labor force pushed the February unemployment rate to 9.5 percent, according to preliminary data released today by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Illinois Department of Employment Security (IDES). Data is seasonally adjusted. | | | | Date Created: | 03-21-2013 | | | | Agency ID: | 286**13 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000050669 Original UID: 171676 FIRST WORD: Illinois | |
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