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The steady employment gains in recent months suggest a rough answer. The unemployment rate has been 7.9 percent, 7.8 percent and 7.8 percent for the past three months, while the labor force participation rate has been 63.8 percent, 63.6 percent and 63.6 percent. Meanwhile, job gains have averaged 151,000.
Job seekers ratio. Cold job market. Balanced job market. Hot job market. Job creation and unemployment are affected by factors such as aggregate demand, global competition, education, automation, and demographics. These factors can affect the number of workers, the duration of unemployment, and wage rates.
Unemployment rate at start of presidency Unemployment rate at end of presidency Change in unemployment rate during presidency (percentage points) Harry S. Truman (data available for 1948–1953 only) Democratic: 1945–1953 3.4% (for January 1948) 2.9% −0.5 (from January 1948 to January 1953) Dwight D. Eisenhower: Republican: 1953–1961 2.9% ...
Richard Nixon (1969-1974) GDP growth: 2.0% Unemployment rate: 5.5% Inflation rate: 10.9% Poverty rate: 12.00% Real disposable income per capita: $19,621 Disposable income per capita (adjusted for ...
The labor force is the actual number of people available for work and is the sum of the employed and the unemployed. The U.S. labor force reached a high of 164.6 million persons in February 2020, just at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. [1] Before the pandemic, the U.S. labor force had risen each year since 1960 with the ...
The youth unemployment rate was 18.5% in July 2009, the highest rate in that month since 1948. [189] The unemployment rate of young African Americans was 28.2% in May 2013. [190] The unemployment rate reached an all-time high of 14.7% in April 2020 before falling back to 11.1% in June 2020.
In the Great Depression, GDP fell by 27% (the deepest after demobilization is the recession beginning in December 2007, during which GDP had fallen 5.1% by the second quarter of 2009) and the unemployment rate reached 24.9% (the highest since was the 10.8% rate reached during the 1981–1982 recession). [40]
This is a list of countries by unemployment rate.Methods of calculation and presentation of unemployment rate vary from country to country. Some countries count insured unemployed only, some count those in receipt of welfare benefit only, some count the disabled and other permanently unemployable people, some countries count those who choose (and are financially able) not to work, supported by ...