THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Saturday, January 20, 1996 TAG: 9601200328
SECTION: BUSINESS PAGE: D1 EDITION: FINAL
TYPE: Daily Digest
LENGTH: Short : 23 lines
The nation's unemployment rate held steady at 5.6 percent in December as the manufacturing industry enjoyed its biggest monthly increase in nearly six years, helped by the return of striking aircraft workers. The Labor Department said the overall jobless rate ended the year about where it began as the nation's businesses added 1.7 million workers to their payrolls in 1995, down sharply from the 3.53 million jobs that were added in 1994. Economists said the slowdown in job growth was to be expected given the fact that the economy grew much less robustly in 1995 than it had in 1994. (AP)
KEYWORDS: UNEMPLOYMENT by CNB