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Today’s jobs report paints a mixed picture for the economy. The good news: Overall unemployment was low (4.9 percent) in August. The bad news: the economy added just 151,000 jobs last month, falling short of the 180,000+ jobs economists were expecting.
Here’s the other news you may have missed in today’s report.
Women gained virtually all of the 151,000 jobs added to the economy in August.
Among some of the interesting news last month, is that women claimed 96 percent of all the jobs added to the economy. The good news? Some of those jobs were good jobs with decent salaries and benefits. The bad news? Some of those jobs were not so good.
The overall unemployment rate masks what’s going on for certain vulnerable groups.
The overall unemployment rate and the number of jobs added to the economy each month are a general picture of how our economy is doing. But those two numbers alone fail to paint a clear picture of how the economy is doing for women, particularly vulnerable groups of women. Among some of the bad news last month is that unemployment rates for certain groups of women were much higher than the overall unemployment rate.