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Annual rate of change of unemployment rate over presidential terms in office. From President Truman onward, the unemployment rate fell by 0.8% with a Democratic president on average, while it rose 1.1% with a Republican. [27] Job creation is reported monthly and receives significant media attention, as a proxy for the overall health of the economy.
The youth unemployment rate was 18.5% in July 2009, the highest rate in that month since 1948. [188] The unemployment rate of young African Americans was 28.2% in May 2013. [189] 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 ...
Surprisingly, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) does not offer data-sets isolated to the working-age population (ages 16 to 65). [9] Including retirement age individuals in most BLS data-sets may tend to obfuscate the analysis of employment creation in relation to population growth. [ 10 ]
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.
In April 2020, 138,000 Austin residents were without a job, reflecting a 12.2 percent unemployment rate; this was the highest unemployment rate recorded in the city since recordkeeping began in 1990; the previous highest was 7.8 percent in July 2009. Nearly half of the job losses between March and April 2020 were from bars, restaurants, and hotels.
In April 2010, the US unemployment rate was 9.9%, but the government's broader U-6 unemployment rate was 17.1%. [175] In April 2012, the unemployment rate was 4.6% in Japan. [176] In a 2012 story, the Financial Post reported, "Nearly 75 million youth are unemployed around the world, an increase of more than 4 million since 2007. In the European ...
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The United States Census Bureau's Household Pulse Survey published weekly statistics of the effects of the pandemic on Americans' lives. For week 12 (July 16–21), 51.1% of respondents reported a loss of employment income since March 13, 2020, 12.1% reported food scarcity, 40.1% delayed getting medical care in the past four weeks, and 26.5% ...