Jobless Rate Dips to 9%; 80,000 New Jobs In October

Job growth during August and September are stronger than originally thought.

The Labor Department said the economy added 102,000 more jobs in August and September than first thought. And the ranks of the long-term unemployed, people out of a job for at least six months, fell sharply to 5.9 million.

Those signs further ease fears of a new recession, which had loomed over the economy this past summer. Europe is wrestling with a debt crisis, however, and even if it dodges catastrophe, a recession there would be a drag on the U.S. economy.

By: Alan

Alan Colmes is the publisher of Liberaland.