The unemployment rate dropped anyway because the number of employed people leapt by 631, 000.
The number of employed people dropped dramatically during the 18 month recession in 2008 and the first half of 2009, and for several months thereafter.
Whereas the number of employed people in the U.S. fell by about 4.6 percent from July 2008 to July 2010, for teenage workers (a reasonable proxy for minimum wage workers), employment fell by a whopping 21 percent.
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It remains the biggest tobacco-producing state in the country, but the amount of tobacco harvested, the number of tobacco farms and the number of people employed in tobacco manufacturing have all declined markedly.
Since 1980, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the number of people employed in finance, broadly defined, has shot up from roughly five million to more than seven and a half million.
According to the CBI, the number of people employed in bars, restaurants and other consumer service businesses fell over the quarter.
Over the past four years the number of people employed by foreign banks in Australia has risen from 4, 000 to 20, 000.
For a bit of perspective on that figure, 150, 000 is the approximate number of people employed by Hewlett-Packard (nyse: HPQ - news - people ) worldwide.
But the number of employees working full-time has fallen 120, 000 and the number of self-employed people working full time has risen by 132, 000.
The number of self-employed people in the UK has increased by nearly 10% since the start of the economic crisis, a report has found.
Earlier in the day new jobs figures had shown that the number of people employed in the US fell last month by the largest figure for 10 years.
And one element of the labour market which we do know has changed is the boost to the number of self-employed people.
Executive pay has increased since 2008 while the number of people employed has decreased.
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The number of people employed by the industry in Britain fell by 7% in the three years to the third quarter of 2011.
It brings to almost 3, 400 the number of people employed by Webhelp TSC in Scotland and means economic boosts in Glasgow, Larbert and Kilmarnock.
It follows figures showing the number of people employed by the authority fell by about 20% to just over 16, 000 between September 2010 and March.
Meanwhile, the number of people employed by the banking sector has been cut by a third, from 114, 000 before the crisis, and more redundancies are unavoidable.
Between 1970 and 1990 the number of people employed in tech in the Valley more than doubled to 268, 000, and then burgeoned to over 540, 000 in the 1990s.
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The number of people employed by the UK Border Agency (UKBA) has dropped by about 4, 000 in the past two years, although many of these were not in document-checking roles.
Now, the number of people employed in manufacturing is less in percentage terms than it was back then, and more of what is produced in the developed world is bought by a growing developing world.
"The number of people employed has probably dropped about 40% and a lot of smaller companies have disappeared, so you have seen a widescale reduction in the capacity of the house building industry, " he says.
Unlike the Tories, the present government is more concerned about the number of people who are employed, rather than the official level of unemployment.
In the ten years to 2003 the number of travel agencies that employed more than 100 people grew by 60%, from 109 to 174, and the number of tiny ones fell by a third, from 18, 186 to 12, 865.
There will be a number of exemptions including removing the need for self employed entitled people working fewer than eight hours a week to need a licence.
More than 250 people are employed at the site but the firm is yet to disclose the number of job losses.
More than 250 people are employed at the site but Seven Seas is yet to disclose the exact number of job losses.
Mr Castro said 200, 000 people had already registered as self-employed since changes were announced last October, doubling the number of Cubans working for themselves.
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