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Statistics from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics 2019 Annual Survey [21] Race Production, transportation, and material moving Natural resources, construction, and maintenance Sales and office Service Management, professional, and related White 11.3 10.1 21.3 15.9 41.4 Black or African American 16.2 5.7 22.3 23.8 31.9 Asian 9.1 3.1 17 15.8 55
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In September 2019, the U.S. unemployment rate dropped to 3.5%, near the lowest rate in 50 years. [20] On May 8, 2020, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that 20.5 million nonfarm jobs were lost and the unemployment rate rose to 14.7 percent in April, due to the Coronavirus pandemic in the United States. [21]
"Continuing claims have fluctuated in a 1.8 million to 1.9 million range every single week since May," said Stephen Stanley, chief U.S. economist at Santander U.S. Capital Markets.
Data are provided by the Bureau of Labor Statistics in its Geographic Profile of Employment and Unemployment publication. [1] [2] While the non-seasonally adjusted data reflects the actual unemployment rate, the seasonally adjusted data removes time from the equation. [3]
In August, the Labor Department announced that it had overstated the number of jobs added to the U.S. economy from March 2023 to March 2024 —and by quite a bit. The economy added 818,000 fewer ...
In 2021, an estimated 2.4 percent of U.S. workers walked to work, while less than 1 percent commuted by bike. (U.S. Census) More than 46 percent of workers reported commuting primarily on the bus ...
The unemployment rate reached an all-time high of 14.7% in April 2020 before falling back to 11.1% in June 2020. Due to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, Q2 GDP in the US fell 32.9% in 2020. [194] [195] [196] The unemployment rate continued its rapid decline falling to 3.9% in 2021. [197] It reached 3.7% in May 2023. [198]