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  2. Unemployment in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The unemployment rate (U-6) is a wider measure of unemployment, which treats additional workers as unemployed (e.g., those employed part-time for economic reasons and certain "marginally attached" workers outside the labor force, who have looked for a job within the last year, but not within the last 4 weeks).

  3. File:US Unemployment from 1910-1960.svg - Wikipedia

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    Data for 1910-1930 from Christina Romer (1986), "Spurious Volatility in Historical Unemployment Data", The Journal of Political Economy, 94(1): 1-37. Data for 1930-1940 from Robert M. Coen (1973). "Labor Force and Unemployment in the 1920's and 1930's: A Re-Examination Based on Postwar Experience", The Review of Economics and Statistics, 55(1 ...

  4. List of recessions in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Bank run on the Seamen's Savings Bank during the panic of 1857. There have been as many as 48 recessions in the United States dating back to the Articles of Confederation, and although economists and historians dispute certain 19th-century recessions, [1] the consensus view among economists and historians is that "the [cyclical] volatility of GNP and unemployment was greater before the Great ...

  5. U.S. economic performance by presidential party - Wikipedia

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    Since World War II, the United States economy has performed significantly better on average under the administration of Democratic presidents than Republican presidents. The reasons for this are debated, and the observation applies to economic variables including job creation, GDP growth, stock market returns, personal income growth, and corporate profits.

  6. Unemployment in the US Now vs. a Year Ago - AOL

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    This unemployment rate was both the highest rate and largest month-over-month increase in the history of Bureau of Labor Statistics data, which dates back to 1948. ... Unemployment in the US Now ...

  7. File:Us unemployment rates 1950 2005.svg - Wikipedia

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    Unemployment rates in the United States (1950 - 2005). Background colors and dotted lines show the terms of U.S. presidents and their political party affiliation, to give more historical context. Data source: Bureau of Labor Statistics; Chart created by User:Kmf164 on May 10, 2006. Date: 10 May 2006 (original upload date) Source

  8. List of economic expansions in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The United States exited recession in late 1949, and another robust expansion began. This expansion coincided with the Korean War, after which the Federal Reserve initiated more restrictive monetary policy. The slowdown in economic activity led to the recession of 1953, bringing an end to nearly four years of expansion. May 1954– Aug 1957 39 ...

  9. S&P Chart After Unemployment - AOL

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    Stocks are seeing a post-unemployment pop today now that the rate has dipped to 7.8% as the lowest since January 2009. ... but one thing that investors can agree on is that charts rarely have to ...