Unemployment rate at 6.9%, a 2-year high: Study

The study also found the labour participation rate, which is a measure of the proportion of adults willing to work, fell to 42.4% - the lowest since January 2016.The count of the unemployed persons actively looking for jobs almost doubled to 29.5 million in October 2018 from a low of 14 million in July 2017.

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