1.   During the second week in December, the jobless rate fell by two percent.

2.   Yet the jobless rate is falling sharply.

3.   Although it remains far lower than the US unemployment rate, the rising jobless rate confirms that the slowdown has arrived.

4.   An increase in the jobless rate in October was no cause for concern, the Massachusetts Division of Employment and Training said in its monthly jobs report.

5.   Analysts also had expected no change in the jobless rate.

6.   And workers are feeling the pinch of higher rates as the government reported Friday that the jobless rate rose.

7.   And with the jobless rate at the lowest in a generation, inflation may not be far off, Woods added.

8.   Anthony Ferrara, commission of Bureau of Labor Statistics for New England, said the jobless rate is on a downward trend.

9.   And while the overall jobless rate in France is relatively high, it is much higher for young adults trying to enter the job market.

10.   Annable recently pointed out in The Wall Street Journal that the Midwest has experienced jobless rates even lower than the national level without any resulting surge in labor costs.