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July 2009 Australian unemployment rate: 5.8% [28] August 2009 Australian unemployment rate: 5.8% [29] September 2009 Australian unemployment rate: 5.7% [30] October 2009 Australian unemployment rate: 5.8% [31] The unemployment rate for October rose slightly due to population growth and other factors leading to 35,000 people looking for work ...
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.
The estimated U.S. Unemployment rate from 1890 to 2010. 1890–1930 data are from Romer (who modified Lebergott's work after finding some errors in it). [211] 1930–1940 data are from Coen. [212] 1940–2009 data are from Bureau of Labor Statistics. [213] [214] See image info for complete data.
June payrolls fell by 467,000, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That was higher than the 365,000 jobs economists surveyed by Bloomberg had expected employers would shed. The BLS said ...
The news that the unemployment rate hit a 16-year high, to 7.2% in December, and that 2.6 million jobs were lost in 2008 -- the most since 1945, is bad news that is only going to get worse as 2009 ...
Almost everyone in financial circles -- and in the known universe, or so it seemed -- expected a poor February U.S. jobs report, given the pronounced U.S. recession, and the report did not ...
However, syndicated columnist and former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Paul Craig Roberts claimed in a 2012 column that if all discouraged workers were included in U.S. unemployment statistics, the actual unemployment rate would be 22%, comparable to rates during the Great Depression. [citation needed]
It's not quite time to put on your party hat and start singing "We're in the Money," but the recently released monthly employment statistics do shine a little ray of hope. It seems that 36 states ...