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However, the labor force participation rate ("LFPR") for that group continued a long-term downward trend, [2] falling from around 83% pre-crisis to 81% during Obama's tenure. [134] Between 2014 and 2015, real median household income grew 5.2%, or $2,800, the fastest growth on record.
President Barack Obama's economic team released a massive 447-page report (link opens PDF) on the economy last week. The introductory text describes what you might expect from such a report: The ...
The recovery from the Great Recession was marked by a lower labor force participation rate, some economists attributing the lower participation rate partially to an aging population and people staying in school longer, as well as long-term structural demographic changes. [119]
The labor force participation rate (LFPR) is defined as the number of persons in the labor force (i.e., employed and unemployed) divided by the civilian population (aged 16+). This ratio has steadily fallen from 67.3% in March 2000 to 62.5% by May 2016. [ 54 ]
The labor force participation rate, LFPR (or economic activity rate, EAR), is the ratio between the labor force and the overall size of their cohort (national population of the same age range). Much as in other countries in the West , the labor force participation rate in the U.S. increased significantly during the later half of the 20th ...
The rate for Blacks, who comprised 13.2 percent of the population and 23.8 percent of America’s poor, however, remained stubbornly high at 18.8 percent, in part because the Trump administration ...
Obama and Raul Castro reversed over 60 years of tension between the U.S. and Cuba by restoring diplomatic ties. 4. He urged states in 2013 to raise the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour.
Labor force participation rates (i.e., number in labor force divided by civilian population) were approximately the same in 2000 for native- and foreign-born, at 67%. Comparing 2000 with 2015, participation rates fell more for native-born (5 percentage points, to 62%) than foreign-born (2 percentage points, to 65%).