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The historical average unemployment rate (January 1948-September 2020) is 5.8%. [4] The government's broader U-6 unemployment rate, which includes the part-time underemployed was 8.3% in September 2017.
Unemployment in the US by State (June 2023) The list of U.S. states and territories by unemployment rate compares the seasonally adjusted unemployment rates by state and territory, sortable by name, rate, and change. Data are provided by the Bureau of Labor Statistics in its Geographic Profile of Employment and Unemployment publication.
Unemployment insurance is funded by both federal and state payroll taxes. In most states, employers pay state and federal unemployment taxes if: (1) they paid wages to employees totaling $1,500 or more in any quarter of a calendar year, or (2) they had at least one employee during any day of a week for 20 or more weeks in a calendar year, regardless of whether those weeks were consecutive.
The Labor Department reported last month on the unemployment rates of the 51 metropolitan areas in the U.S. with a population greater than 1 million.
Almost all of the cities are in the Midwest and many are small. The largest is Salt Lake City, Utah. It has a population of about 190,000 and an unemployment rate of 3.8 percent.
(The Center Square) – Unemployment rates dropped in 10 of Wisconsin’s 12 metropolitan areas for October from September while all 12 areas saw year over year unemployment declines. Twenty-three ...
U.S. states by net employment rate (% of population 16 and over) 2022 [1]; National rank State Employment rate in % (total population) Annual change (%)
The 1860s were a period of growing protectionism in the United States, while the European free trade phase lasted from 1860 to 1892. The tariff average rate on imports of manufactured goods in 1875 was from 40% to 50% in the United States, against 9% to 12% in continental Europe at the height of free trade. [44]