A long-delayed government report on Tuesday showed that the unemployment rate jumped in November to 4.6 percent, as a decline in government employment offset gains in the private sector.
The U.S. economy added 64,000 jobs in the month, the Department of Labor said, higher than the 50,000 expected. Economists had forecast an unemployment rate of 4.5 percent.
The prior month’s jobs figures, also not released until Tuesday, show a significant job loss of 105,000. The government has said it will not release a report on unemployment in October because it lacks data from a survey that the government did not conduct in October due to the shutdown.
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