Louise Story, Globe Correspondent
The survey panel’s projected unemployment rate for December, for instance, is 2 percentage points lower now than it was when we asked just a month earlier. FromFiveThirtyEight Stay-at-home orders in March due to the coronavirus pandemic triggered widespread unemployment in the United States. ...
Last year’s September 2021 unemployment rate was 4.7%. Forty-six states and the district had their unemployment rate decrease when compared to a year earlier, with the other four seeing little change. Nonfarm employment increased in nine states, decreased in one state, and remained essentially ...
Well, today's a real good day for a real good news story about the Gem State! According to theBureau of Labor Statistics, Idaho's unemployment rate has dropped significantly since 2020. And when we saysignificantly, we really do mean by a wide margin. ...
Black and African-American individuals had the highest unemployment rate in 2021 out of any ethnicity, and people who had less than a high school diploma had the highest unemployment rate by education level. Alaska is consistently the state with the highest unemployment rate, although the El ...
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The state unemployment rate was 0.8 percentage points lower than the national rate for the month. The unemployment rate in Kansas peaked in April 2020 at 12.4% and is now 9.5 percentage points lower. From a post peak low of 2.4% in February 2022, the unemployment rate has now grown by ...
Unemployment Rate is a percentage of unemployed workers in relation to China's total civilian labor force. The indicator is calculated based on seasonally adjusted data. A decline in the unemployment
Unemployment Rate (seasonally adjusted) Unadjusted Unemployment by State Other Metrics The BLS publishes five alternative measures: U-1, U-2, U-4, U-5, andU-6. U-6 is often called the real unemployment rate, but U-3 is the only official unemployment rate. The others are measures of lab...
True Unemployment Is Not Reflected in the Unemployment Rate There are many problems with relying too heavily on the national unemployment rate as a meaningful indicator of the state of the economy and its workforce. Workers who have given up actively seeking a job, are not counted in the unempl...