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The historical average unemployment rate (January 1948-September 2020) is 5.8%. [4] The government's broader U-6 unemployment rate, which includes the part-time underemployed was 8.3% in September 2017.
The COVID-19 recession proved to be the shortest recession in US history but had the largest GDP decline since the 1945 recession. [19] The short-term economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic included supply chain shortages , the collapse of many service and hospitality industries, and a dramatic rise in unemployment.
Blinder and Watson estimated that the S&P 500 returned 8.4% annually on average under Democrats versus 2.7% under Republicans, a difference of 5.7% percentage points. This computation used the average value in last year of the president's term, minus the average value in last year of previous term. [1]
The four-week average of claims, which strips out seasonal fluctuations from the data, dropped 10,250 to 213,000 last week. ... U.S. Treasury prices fell, with the yield on the 10-year note rising ...
Consumer price increases have been stuck at an elevated level this year, after a sharp drop last year from a peak of 9.1% in June 2022 to 3% a year later. In March, prices rose 3.5% compared with ...
However, from December 1982 through December 2011, the all-items CPI-E rose at an annual average rate of 3.1 percent, compared with increases of 2.9 percent for both the CPI-U and CPI-W. [28] This suggests that the elderly have been losing purchasing power at the rate of roughly 0.2 (=3.1–2.9) percentage points per year.
The Labor Department's closely watched employment report on Friday also showed the unemployment rate rising to 3.9% from 3.8% in March amid rising labor supply. ... monthly average for the past ...
The 1860s were a period of growing protectionism in the United States, while the European free trade phase lasted from 1860 to 1892. The tariff average rate on imports of manufactured goods in 1875 was from 40% to 50% in the United States, against 9% to 12% in continental Europe at the height of free trade. [44]