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According to Bureau of Labor Statistics, unemployment during Trump's presidency peaked in April 2020 at 14.8%, heavily due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The rate was the highest of any month since the ...
The unemployment rate was at 3.5% in February 2020 compared to 6.4% when Trump left office in January 2021, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data. - Brad Sylvester
The economy added just 236,000 new nonfarm payroll jobs in March, which is down from the previous six-month … Continue reading → The post March Jobs Report Shows a Cooling Labor Market.
The 128-month (10.7-year) economic expansion that began in June 2009 abruptly ended at a peak in February 2020, with the U.S. entering a recession due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [12] The U.S. unemployment rate, which had hit a 50-year low (3.5%) in February 2020, hit a 90-year high (14.7%) just two months later, matching Great Depression levels.
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) publishes a monthly "Employment Situation Summary" with key statistics and commentary. [10] As of June 2018, approximately 128.6 million people in the United States have found full-time work (at least 35 hours a week in total), while 27.0 million worked part-time. [11]
The Bureau of Labor was established within the Department of the Interior on June 27, 1884, to collect information about employment and labor. Its creation under the Bureau of Labor Act (23 Stat. 60) stemmed from the findings of U.S. Senator Henry W. Blair's "Labor and Capital Hearings", which examined labor issues and working conditions in the U.S. [6] Statistician Carroll D. Wright became ...
The February jobs report provides an update on the resiliency of the labor market ahead of the Federal Reserve's next policy decision on March 20. February jobs report: US economy adds 275,000 ...
From March 1 to September 19, 2020, nearly 20,000 of Amazon's U.S. employees tested positive or were presumed positive. [156] The Chicago Tribune reported in March 2020 that employees at UPS, FedEx, and XPO, Inc. were often pressured not to take time off, even with symptoms such as fever and cough consistent with COVID-19. Public health ...