美国失业率维持在9.6%

U.S. ECONOMY ADDED 151,000 JOBS IN OCTOBER; UNEMPLOYMENT RATE STEADY AT 9.6%: The United States economy added 151,000 jobs in October, a welcome change after four months of job losses but still not enough to make a significant dent in unemployment, which remained at 9.6 percent. Private companies have been slowly expanding their payrolls throughout 2010, according to a Labor Department report released Friday. This private job growth had been overwhelmed by the elimination of temporary decennial Census jobs and state and local government jobs during the summer and early fall, until October. The report also offered revised figures for August and September that showed substantially lower job losses for those months than previously reported.