Summary of Article The article I chose came from the Knight Ridder Tribune Business News; Washington; Oct 5, 2002. The article dealt with how the jobless rate for the United States dropped but at the same time the economy shrank by forty three thousand jobs. One of the reasons this happened was because the unemployment rate comes from a survey of about sixty thousand households while the jobs data is derived from payroll data from about three …showed first 75 words of 726 total…

…showed last 75 words of 726 total…going to remain the same. A big test for the economy coming up is the holiday season when businesses see the most profits. The holiday season also creates an in flux of temporary jobs and the way things have been going you can expect many of those jobs to be taken rather quickly. It’s a true test that the economy must pass if it wants to continue the rebound it is supposedly experiencing currently.