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US porn industry shutdown blamed for skewing disappointing jobs data
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| Contributor | Scott³ |
| Last Edited | Scott³ Sep 06, 2013 06:14pm |
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| Category | News |
| Author | Katherine Rushton |
| Media | Newspaper - Daily Telegraph |
| News Date | Saturday, September 7, 2013 12:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | "The unemployment rate edged down from 7.4pc in July to 7.3pc in August – its lowest rate since 2008 - but the change was driven by people dropping out of the labour force rather than any increase in paid employment.
According to Labour Department figures released on Friday, the number of people with jobs fell by 112,000 in August. The data do not go into detail about why specific industries suffered, but it is thought that a temporary hiatus in the pornography industry had a significant impact on the figures.
The adult film business was brought to a standstill for 12 days in August, after one of its actors was found to have HIV. The jobs data do not drill down into such specific industries, but the wider movie business lost 22,000 paid jobs – around 6pc of its total workforce.
However, America’s official unemployment rate still fell as 312,000 people are no longer counted as part of the country’s potential workforce, for example because they passed retirement age, or entered full time education.
The Labour Department also revised its June and July hiring figures sharply downwards, revealing that 74,000 fewer people entered paid employment over the summer than it had previously thought." |
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