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May 3 – New economic data shows that the U.S. unemployment rate fell from 3.8 percent to 3.6 percent in April 2019, the lowest in 49 years, with employers adding 263,000 jobs in April versus the expected 190,000.
In September 2019, the U.S. unemployment rate dropped to 3.5%, near the lowest rate in 50 years. [20] On May 8, 2020, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that 20.5 million nonfarm jobs were lost and the unemployment rate rose to 14.7 percent in April, due to the Coronavirus pandemic in the United States .
Data for all U.S. states, the District of Columbia [4] and Puerto Rico [5] is from June 2023 and September 2021, respectively. Data for Guam is from September 2019, and data for American Samoa is from 2018. Data for the Northern Mariana Islands is from April 2010 (more than ten years old) it is included but not ranked in the table below.
A viral social media post claims some states have high unemployment rates because they’re run by Democratic governors. That is missing context.
U.S. job growth increased moderately in September, with the unemployment rate dropping to near a 50-year low of 3.5 percent.
Here are some noteworthy statistics regarding how the unemployment rate has changed from 2020 to 2021: Change in unemployment rate from April 2020 to February 2021: -8.6%
The unemployment rate of young African Americans was 28.2% in May 2013. [193] 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 the US fell 32.9% in 2020.
The number of Americans applying for first-time jobless claims reached its lowest level since November 1969, with the number of filings dropping to 199,000.