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IT unemployment rate stayed at 2.9% in 2005
IT employment picked up in 2005, with the jobless rate falling to 2.9%, down from 4.
IT employment picked up in 2005, with the jobless rate falling to 2.9%, down from 4.3% in 2004, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Though the number of programmers grew 3% in 2005, the 581,000 programmers employed is 22% less than in 2000.