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Real incomes grew across all higher percentiles at a greater rate under Democrats, even during the Great Recession and its recovery in Obama's first term. Bartels calculated in 2008 that the real value of the minimum wage over the preceding sixty years had increased 16 cents per year under Democratic presidents but declined by 6 cents per year ...
The unemployment rate fell from 10.0% in October 2009 to 4.7% by December 2016, a 5.3 percentage point decline. The 4.7% rate was below the historical average of 5.6%. Under Trump, it then fell to 3.5% by November 2019, another 1.2 percentage points. [153] This improvement pattern was similar for all racial groups after 2010. [154]
Unemployment rates historically are lower for those groups with higher levels of education. For example, in May 2016 the unemployment rate for workers over 25 years of age was 2.5% for college graduates, 5.1% for those with a high school diploma, and 7.1% for those without a high school diploma.
Richard Nixon (1969-1974) GDP growth: 2.0% Unemployment rate: 5.5% Inflation rate: 10.9% Poverty rate: 12.00% Real disposable income per capita: $19,621 Disposable income per capita (adjusted for ...
Updated July 14, 2016 at 10:46 PM. Rise in U.S. Jobs - Unemployment Holds Steady. ... Unemployment rates have recovered dramatically in all the states since the end of the Great Recession.
President Barack Obama has widely lauded the falling unemployment rate, citing it as proof his economic policies are working. Pants on fire: Obama accused by polling firm of lying about dropping ...
In 2003, prior to the significant expansion of subprime lending of 2004-2006, the unemployment rate was close to 6%. [52] The wider measure of unemployment ("U-6") which includes those employed part-time for economic reasons or marginally attached to the labor force rose from 8.4% pre-crisis to a peak of 17.1% in October 2009.
The March jobs numbers, released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics on Friday, were so dismal that Austan Goolsbee, former chairman of President Obama's Council of Economic Advisers, called them "a ...