Since January 1948, The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics has collected monthly unemployment data — collecting 776 months of data. The unemployment rate has stood at 8 percent or higher in three periods: for 12 months in 1975, for 27...
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Job seekers reflected in a mirror during a fair sponsored by National Career Fairs in San Diego.
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Residents help clean up in front of a foreclosed home in Miami.
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The “Misery Rate” — a Bloomberg index of government data combining consumer prices and the jobless rate — is over 10 percent in President Barack Obama’s home town, and under 7 percent in Republican Mitt Romney’s home town. The rate...
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A job fair at a state office building in Brooklyn, New York.
Fist-Bump or Moment of Silence — How the Jobs News is Delivered
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