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U.S. states by net employment rate (% of population 16 and over) 2022 [1]; National rank State Employment rate in % (total population) Annual change (%)
More than 82,000 undergraduate and graduate, part-time and full-time, students attend State System universities. [1] Nearly 90 percent are Pennsylvania residents and 80 percent remain in Pennsylvania after graduation. Nearly 20 percent of the total student population are underrepresented minority.
The category of Elementary/Secondary Education has the highest employment per capita across states. [3] In 2012, three states (Arizona, Colorado, and Tennessee) passed major changes to their civil service hiring systems as part of a civil service reform movement, making it easier to hire and fire state employees. [4]
The policy rate was hiked by 5.25 percentage points in 2022 and 2023 to tame inflation. ... Government employment has been one of the top drivers of employment growth over the last year ...
The labor force participation rate, LFPR (or economic activity rate, EAR), is the ratio between the labor force and the overall size of their cohort (national population of the same age range). Much as in other countries in the West , the labor force participation rate in the U.S. increased significantly during the later half of the 20th ...
As of the 2007-2008 school year, there were 265,545 students enrolled in private K-12 schools in Pennsylvania. [7] State students consistently do well in standardized testing. In 2007, Pennsylvania ranked 14th in mathematics, 12th in reading, and 10th in writing for 8th grade students. [8]
The US economy closed out 2024 with another month of massive job growth, adding 256,000 positions in December. The unemployment rate dipped to 4.1% from 4.2%, wrapping up a year that marked a ...
The historical record indicates that marginal income tax rate changes have little impact on job creation, economic growth or employment. [143] [144] [145] During the 1970s, marginal income tax rates were far higher than subsequent periods and the U.S. created 19.6 million net new jobs.