20,000 Jobs Lost in US as Official Unemployment Rate Falls

Revised figures show 8.7 million jobs lost since December 2007

by Andre Damon
Global Research, February 6, 2010

The official US unemployment rate fell to 9.7 percent in January, despite 20,000 jobs lost, according to monthly figures for December released Friday by the Labor Department.

The number of jobs, which the labor department called “essentially unchanged,â€