Growth Weakens in September,” Dean Baker, CEPR, 10/15 “Disappointing Jobs Numbers and Not Enough Teachers,” Elise Gould, Economic Policy Institute, 10/15 Labor Force Statistics, BLS, 10/15 Analysis of BLS Monthly Jobs Report: Center for Economic Policy Research Center on Budget and Policy Priorities: Chartbook Economic Policy Institute Witness Wednesdays, Stories of the Unemployed The missing… Read More Job Related News (October 2015)
OCTOBER 2015 Unemployment Data–the Full Count* (U.S. BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS) OFFICIAL UNEMPLOYMENT: 5.0%*[Analyses] White 4.4% African American 9.2% Hispanic 6.3% Asian** 3.5% Persons with a disability** 10.5% Men 20 years and over 4.7% Women 20 years and over 4.5% Teens (16-19 years) 15.9% Black teens 25.6% Officially unemployed 7.9 million *If… Read More Unemployment Data – October 2015
Coalition Work and Activities Where Are Today’s Mass Movements? What we can learn from the millions who demonstrated for jobs, government relief, and collective bargaining rights in the 1930s. Goldberg, Dollars and Sense, J/F 2015 Greg Heires’ Blog Jobs for All for Goes to Washington! video Hear the Voices of the Unemployed! Conference: An Economic… Read More Recent work of NJFAC
Minimum rate between January 2007 and May 2015: 23.1% in April 2015 Maximum Rate: 57.2% in June 2013 Source: BLS http://beta.bls.gov/dataViewer/view/timeseries/LNU04000019 Unemployment Rates – 16-19 yrs. Black or African American Men Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Black men 16-19 Unemployment Rates 1972-2014, Series Id: LNU04000019 Data are not seasonally adjusted [NSA].
A COALITION REPRINT: December, 1996 by Helen Lachs Ginsburg, Economics, Emerita, Brooklyn College of the City University of New York; author, Full Employment and Public Policy: The United States and Sweden.  The author wishes to thank Al Burke for his help. Until recently, full employment was the highest priority of Swedish society and of the… Read More Sweden: Fall from Grace*
