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The unemployment rate (U-6) is a wider measure of unemployment, which treats additional workers as unemployed (e.g., those employed part-time for economic reasons and certain "marginally attached" workers outside the labor force, who have looked for a job within the last year, but not within the last 4 weeks).
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]
Unemployment in the US by State (June 2023) The list of U.S. states and territories by unemployment rate compares the seasonally adjusted unemployment rates by state and territory, sortable by name, rate, and change. Data are provided by the Bureau of Labor Statistics in its Geographic Profile of Employment and Unemployment publication.
Unemployment: Then and Now. Comparing last year’s unemployment numbers with this year’s can give even the non-economist a concrete look at whether or not the economy is improving, particularly ...
The unemployment rate ticked higher to 3.9%, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. ... the pace of job growth is now slightly below what was seen last year, BLS data shows. Through April ...
US jobs report crushes expectations as economy adds 254,000 jobs, unemployment rate falls to 4.1%. ... rose to 4% year over year, from a 3.9% annual gain in August. On a monthly basis, wages ...
10 years 8 months 14.7% (April 2020) [84] −19.2% [85] The economic effects of the pandemic were severe after the first quarter of 2020. More than 24 million people lost jobs in the United States in just three weeks in April. [86] The economic impact of the virus is still being determined, but the recession was the shortest on record. [83]
The lowest unemployment rate was in North Dakota at just 2.7%, while New Mexico had the highest unemployment rate at 6.7%. Unemployment rates have recovered dramatically in all the states since ...