On Wednesday, ADP said that seasonally-adjusted private-sector employment dropped by 39,000 in September, down to 106,949,000. Yednesday, Gallup asserted that their measure of non-seasonally-adjusted unemployment went up from 9.3% at the end of August (itself up from 9.1% in the middle of August) to 9.4% in the middle of September and 10.1% at the end of September. Today, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said seasonally-adjusted private-sector employment rose by 64,000 to 107,970,000, and that the non-seasonally-adjusted unemployment rate dropped from 9.5% in August to 9.2% in September.
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