PrintFebruary 18, 2010
Graph of the Day for February 18, 2010
"The unemployment rate hit 10 percent in October, and there are good reasons to believe that by 2011, 2012, even 2014, it will have declined only a little. Late last year, the average duration of unemployment surpassed six months, the first time that has happened since 1948, when the Bureau of Labor Statistics began tracking that number. As of this writing, for every open job in the U.S., six people are actively looking for work." Don Peck in The Atlantic Monthly.
Source: St. Louis Fed, UEMPMEAN series.
Hoven's Index for February 18, 2010
Number of civilians unemployed 27 weeks or more, as of December 2007: 1,325,000
As of December 2008: 2,612,000
As of December 2009: 6,130,000
Civilian participation rate, as of December 2007: 66.0%
As of December 2008: 65.8%
As of December 2009: 64.6%
Source: St. Louis Fed.
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